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10-12-2007, 10:32 PM
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I hear them call the tide
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What's your curse? and your special talent?
A local radio "personality" was saying that their curse is new TV series. Each season she gets into a few new shows, and every single one she gets into gets cancelled. My curse is gas prices. When I fill up, the gas price immediatley drops 20c. If I need to fill but am late and have no time to stop, the price jumps 20c before I start my journey home.
My special talent, though, is finding needles in haystacks. If you lose something tiny in an impossible place, I will find it, and pretty quickly. Recently, I 've found a tiny (eyeglasses) screw on a huge grey "sculptured" carpet, and a regular-sized bolt on a half mile stretch of road.
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10-12-2007, 10:44 PM
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finding things
My glasses came off in the ocean and I found them. Really. But that wasn't luck, I immediately devised a system and stuck to it. It worked.
My wife's nose ring came off at Whole Foods. I went immediately to the place where we had dawdled around the most - in front of the beer section. It was there, on the ground. She was impressed. That said, I can't seem to find a pair of scissors when I need one. But my special talent/curse isn't finding things, it's Asperger's.
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10-12-2007, 11:55 PM
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I hear them call the tide
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(my finding skill isn't "luck" either, but don't tell anyone.....)
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10-13-2007, 05:18 AM
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I would not be surprised if many of us here are semi-Aspergerish. |
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10-13-2007, 09:36 AM
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10-13-2007, 09:51 AM
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10-14-2007, 08:35 AM
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10-12-2007, 11:54 PM
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I hear them call the tide
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Regarding finding scissors, we solved that one by buying more until we reached saturation point.
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10-12-2007, 11:56 PM
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I can "read" people... get to the root of their personality, very quickly.
Acting came very naturally to me, I discovered the objective/obstacle, both internal and external in characters within a few lines for most plays while others were just discovering the plot. I do this in life too. Superstitious people think I'm psychic when they talk to me about themselves... it's very annoying because I could care less. |
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10-12-2007, 11:58 PM
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10-13-2007, 02:15 AM
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My curse is money, lately. The more I make, the less I have. I'm not spending it on anything new, I just have something stupid come up. My friend lost his job and has been on my couch for two months, when i had just gotten a new job.
Uh, talent? Well, interesting things happen around me. Just completely weird and unnatural shit, all the time and it's annoying. Sometimes good, sometimes bad... I just wish I was bored sometimes. 
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10-12-2007, 11:59 PM
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My special talent is only a curse to people who just can't *get* the bagpipes.
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