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Skill level?

Stephen

So as I keep saying I’m a new diagnosed that I didn’t instigate.

i can do everything,. I really can.. I see it being done and I can do it, give me a week and I can do it just as good if not better.

so if I want to do something, let’s say computer programming.. I will Google the hell out of it and will have something different to show for it aweek later.. but if I have a couple of weeks off programming,  then all is forgotten! 

anybody want to share feelings on this trait? 

I always need to keep busy or I pace, involuntary movements.. self harm mehhhhhhhhj I guess attaching my self to this forum is one of them things right now 

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  • I can relate to this so much. I don’t consider myself to have a big ego but there’s not much I can’t do. And I can then generally excel at it and be better at it than most others I know. With one big caveat: so long as I’m shown it first or know where to find the answer. Without that, I’m hopeless. I can’t do anything! Like with DIY I’m hopeless, when it’s a skill I’m stereotypically just expected to have.

    Your comment about becoming an expert and then forgetting it all reminds me of my childhood swotting for exams. I’d do well but then it would all be forgotten by the next year, unless I was still doing the subject. It’s like I just learnt the way to revise for things I wasn’t interested in, rather than learning the subject long-term.

    Now, I work in the pensions industry. There’s so much historical stuff I don’t know (I was only born in the 80s, and that’s young for the industry!). It means I hate getting called on the phone and being surprised by a question I don’t know the answer to. But I’ll know it (and everything about it) within a couple of hours. So email is a godsend. Gives me the time to give the impression I knew it all, all along!

    Just to clarify, I’m not diagnosed, so I’m not in exactly the same boat (just sharing my experience). I’m on the NHS waiting list. And I’m considering going private to end the doubt. I keep coming across posts which sound like me, like this one, though!

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  • I can relate to this so much. I don’t consider myself to have a big ego but there’s not much I can’t do. And I can then generally excel at it and be better at it than most others I know. With one big caveat: so long as I’m shown it first or know where to find the answer. Without that, I’m hopeless. I can’t do anything! Like with DIY I’m hopeless, when it’s a skill I’m stereotypically just expected to have.

    Your comment about becoming an expert and then forgetting it all reminds me of my childhood swotting for exams. I’d do well but then it would all be forgotten by the next year, unless I was still doing the subject. It’s like I just learnt the way to revise for things I wasn’t interested in, rather than learning the subject long-term.

    Now, I work in the pensions industry. There’s so much historical stuff I don’t know (I was only born in the 80s, and that’s young for the industry!). It means I hate getting called on the phone and being surprised by a question I don’t know the answer to. But I’ll know it (and everything about it) within a couple of hours. So email is a godsend. Gives me the time to give the impression I knew it all, all along!

    Just to clarify, I’m not diagnosed, so I’m not in exactly the same boat (just sharing my experience). I’m on the NHS waiting list. And I’m considering going private to end the doubt. I keep coming across posts which sound like me, like this one, though!

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