My view on neurodivergence is manifold: It can be severely disabling in our neurotypical world and comes with massive health risks, depending on your support network and needs. But it often also brings positive or quirky things.
Today I’m having a particular bad day and would like to help everyone who is in a not so great mood to focus on the good things for a moment. When life can seem harsh, we can decide to focus on the good things, just for a moment and deal with hardships later.
My personal superpower is building things. I have very strong spacial thinking and love to build things, be that computers, Minecraft stuff or machines. I get a lot of positive feedback for this and i consider this my greatest skill.
What is your superpower, your favorite skill, the thing that makes you unique or just different?
My brain is hyperspatial – I literally sort all of my memories spatially. It means when I return to a location (or look at photos or just think of a location), I get a memory cascade. Useful when trying to recall some things, navigate, work with spatial tools, visualize higher order datasets, etc. When studying math (some at the grad school level), it means things like spatial transformations (like the Reimann sphere) are wholly intuitive.
It comes with the tradeoff that I have almost no temporal recall. I cannot remember the order in which events occurred – simple examples might be the order in which a conversation proceeded. I’ll remember all the details of the conversation, but it’s jumbled together. I feel like I’m one of the aliens in the movie Arrival, trying to have a conversation with someone linear. Conversely, this lack of temporal awareness drives some people around me nuts and I apologize all the time.