What's your special interest?

mine are spiders, sky: children of the light, doki doki literature club, and my previous SI was identity v! :)

A year on attachment to RMRE HQ Squadron. While there, I was approached by 23 SAS, who checked me out thoroughly, and then had a job offer on the table which amounted to Bob Nairac's vacant job. I was every bit as good as they thought, I researched it properly, agreed with him (as has history) and discovered what had happened as a result. There was no way forward from there other than to be silent.

I then went on to prove a civvy could run rings around Chicksands - they're not quite as hopeless as the Belgians, but the reality of the work really came home to me on an Iron Curtain border patrol, when we worked with similar spooks. 

I've spent quite a bit of the last 6 years since my own diagnosis wrestling with those myself. Firstly, you'd better check my profile, to save space here. I've only just discovered High Sensitivity, which is a far better fit to my traits than Aspergers: it's utterly incoherent that my track record in finance and diplomacy can be seen as disordered. As in Autistic Spectrum Disorder, to give it its full name. I'm arguing for a restart, at least for High-Performance Aspergers: we're not our symptoms.

When I was diagnosed, my response was that of an intellectual: give me some studies to quantify. I came up dry, constantly, but thankfully the last couple of years have seen movement. Firstly, the author of a major part of my academic mantra moved from the Music Department of Yale to head the Genius School. He saved me a huge amount of work in the birth of the Renaissance, a task set me by the Belgian Supreme Court: and now he's starting to study us brainboxes. Good so far, but as far as I'm concerned, we're on an evolutionary path defined by the growth in our skull physiology. Secondly, the recognition that a class of people exists distinct from the core of society, the neurodiverse-neurotypical dichotomy. I've started considering subgroups intersecting it, which has become particularly pertinent given that Niall McKeever's recent presentation in The Weekend University fell far short. 

Firstly, High-performance. Discussions with Nicholai Vieru, Nadia Comaneci's coach who assembled the only full set of perfect 6 scores in the 1972 Olympics, affirm that this is not unique to the neurodivergent, but is understood in the world of physical performance: many moons ago, I was bid for by the SAS on the basis of my understanding of it, which was sparked by a gym coach in childhood.

Next, Giftedness. I found a vocational seer gift, not so much sought as required - there've been times when I've been Jonahed out of my own ideas into a larger plan underway from long before my birth. Here too, gifted folk aren't necessarily neurodiverse.

Most recently, High Sensitivity. This talks to my seer gift, but in a way far beyond Aron's ideation. My brain's in full use, the metamorphic initiation involved channelling the numinous in a blind reading of a text I didn't know was there, as a test of my source of inspiration. When Donald Trump talked of code-breakers in November, I'd done exactly what he was talking about in the 1980s, when the first details of Bletchley Park's techniques were released, as a proof of concept, taking a snippet of code we had, and cracked it first time, both method and key. It took me less than five minutes to theorise, and twenty to assemble the tools and actually break it. I went on to use it in diplomacy.

My list is far from complete: my Reiki mastery is a combination of the medium gift, diplomatic sensitivity, meridian awareness and zen christian transcendent meditation. Like Usui's circle, I was in a Peacemaking environment. We might get more from Mosby's study of the Third Sector.

This little lot indicates something far beyond homo sapiens neurotypical. An MRI shows I use my brain fully, and it's got a far higher volume than the first Sapiens. Nor am I the first in my family, on either side.  It's for this reason I'm wondering if we're not turning into a new species, Homo Scipiens.

Automation (& associated processes/habits/rituals).

I enjoy spending a *lot* of time figuring out the optimum method (for me) of doing recurring tasks - could be anything... making a cafe latte, doing the laundry, opening my bedroom curtains, filling a syringe, launching my computer games (or playing them).

I'll find the best tools for the job or hack up my own, print labels (I do love my label printer), research the best source of materials and micro-analyse the most efficient order of doing things. I'd love to get me a 3D printer.

The goal isn't just to save time or effort... If I haven't optimised a task, I find it frustrating (and will end up avoiding said task). I do however get intense satisfaction everytime I follow a well engineered solution.

For boring/repetative tasks it also means I can make it a habit/ritual and just follow the process without thinking about it - frees my mind man! It gives me a sense of control and reduces uncertainty.

Downside is that once habitualised, inertia makes it hard to change.

Well mine is suicide prevention and inappropriate prosecution of neurodiverse people. I welcome anything form any others on this subject

• spiders are my special interest!! Im also really interested in sky: children of the light, godzilla, ddlc, identity v, and i like flowers!!

and I do not know when people are lying, that would lead directly to paranoia, that they are lying to me all the time.

but managing people is hard,  cos people are hard! I do it and wouldn't recommend it!

You could be a different type of manager!

Very busy supermarket, 5000 customers daily.

I thought about it, working in a restarurant, and it's a no for two reasons, one, here in Brighton they treat poeple working in kitchens worse then slaves, and so they all drink to much, so I could never even socialise with them after work, two, i'm selflearned cook, started when I was 32, and I know cvery little, but what I can cook is tasty, healthy, and everyone loves, and some of it could pretend it's from Come Dine With Me, but during interview for a chef that wouldn't sell.

second type of job I say no to everytime is being a manager, I could never make people do anything, and I would never go to bullying to make them, so I would quickly get sacked for being useless.

if u are good at cooking ,,, i am serious you must push it everywhere.    sorry, please remind me,,,,  are u working at the moment ?

yes, they don't know, what they're losing, everyone that was brave enough to try, loves my cooking, even my little nieces that are very fussy otherwise.

pity --- i find that a real pity 

I tried that, but after initial yes they started to avoid topic 

I've got a friend coming on Tuesday for a dinner, but since I've got only 2 friends, and everyone else is prettending they are not affraid of me, while they are, and my friends have got their lives and jobs, it is difficult to have a day off on the same day, it happens once a month on average.

volunteer in local homeless charity if u arent working right now

I need someone to eat my food in order to cook

revive both

I used to have special interest, when I was a teenager - painting models, but then busy life made me stop it and forget about it, past 10 years I had similar positive effect when cooking, but I'm not cooking that much anymore, now, that I'm single again, thus I need something else, so I'm thinking about reviving it.

yes up there with Elvis