I know not everyone of us has a special talent, but many of us do. Some are just incredible. So, what are they??

Edit: Please don’t be humble. Let it out. Be proud of it and share so we can marvel.

  • blue@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    9 months ago

    just a funny one:

    following instructions, apparently?

    as a youth, we had a guest lecture at school (computing) and were given a software tutorial to follow. i completed it and the instructors were impressed, to my absolute confusion.

    “i just… followed the instructions?”

    “you’d be surprised how many can’t do that!”

    in hindsight, i do wonder if it’s a slight autism “perk” just because i think literally and follow instructions accurately so long as they aren’t vague. i wonder if some people will struggle with specific instructions but excel at parsing vague things.

    it’s just so funny to me to get complimented on that specifically. but also the student teaching assistant was definitely flirting, which baby autistic me DID pick up on but considered mostly irrelevant to the strange praise??? xD

    • BOMBS@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      I had a similar experience. I’m not a computer programmer, but I took a computer programming class in high school. We had an assignment that I completed like normal. This was a long time ago, but if I remember correctly, it was something about making 3 separate programs, then making another program that all it did was run the 3 other programs in sequence. Apparently, I was the only one in the class that did it right and everyone else bombed it. All I did was follow instructions. I have no idea how anyone else didn’t complete the assignment correctly. Did they just add their own desires to it? Did they disagree with the instructions? How did they mess it up??