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I have an extremely high tolerance to mundane, repetitive tasks because of my vivid imagination. I can just keep doing the same mindless bullshit all day while I'm somewhere else in my head.

If I pay attention to a written piece of information (name, phone number, address, short instructions, that kind of stuff) I will remember it for months and years. Comes in handy when working with complex policies and legislation!

This is balanced by the fact that I have trouble retaining auditory information. If you tell me your name, I've forgotten it before you've even finished talking. (But if I catch it on your badge out of the corner of my eye, I'll remember it for years.) The only exception are dog names - those I have no trouble remembering.

I know how to enunciate, speak with a voice supported by my diaphragm, and increase the intensity of my speaking voice without actually yelling. It's incredibly useful. Virtually no one ever misunderstands me on the phone. I can have a conversation in a loud crowded place. I'm actually fairly conflict-averse, but when I need to "switch on," I can usually short-circuit people's inclination to argue by using a more focused voice.

Everyone should take a decent Acting 101 class where they teach you these skills.

Ability to calm down and read instructions or manuals. I don’t understand people’s insistence on figuring EVERYTHING out.

Don’t get me wrong I love solving problems, but sometimes the solution to the problem is just finding the answer- literally right there. RTFM.

When I was a kid I did gymnastics, and skateboarded/rollerbladed. This combination of activities meant I was falling on my ass all the god damn time.

It also means that I am so accustomed to falling, that even as I age, those instincts survive, and in turn, help me survive. When I fall, I tuck, I roll, I break my fall with any number of instinctual responses. This has lead to me surviving some scary falls I've taken whilst home alone (off a ladder, in the shower, fainting once when I got up from a long squat), and I think will help me survive more in my elder years.

Good at google. Which should be easy for everyone to learn, but a lot of people don't.

Poker face.

No matter what I am thinking internally, it does not show externally. Essential skill for customer service.

I've been told I'm very good at reading people.

A strong sense of spatial awareness, accurately eyeballing measurements, and reverse engineering things in my head without physically taking them apart.

It comes in really handy as a welder, machinist, and a 3D print hobbyist.

I wouldn't call it a skill but I'm really mechanically decent (3D puzzles and Rube Goldberg aptitude, that kind of thing), and my visual memory is really good, so I have the uncanny ability to tear apart household appliances, do something else for hours or days, then return and slap it all back together about as quickly with no leftover mystery screws. I just look at the shit all strewn about, and can somehow recall the very last thing I was holding and work backwords

My moderate skill at hacky sack has surely prevented many things that I've dropped from becoming damaged.

I can carry 3 full pint glasses in one hand and 2 in the other. If they're empty, I can carry 4 in one hand and 3 in the other. It comes in handy more than I would expect

I can cook and I'm good at it, I know how to grow veggies, I know how to fix things, both mechanical and electrical/electronical. But the best skill I have is that I know how to spend time when wifi/power is down.

Neat handed, so good at caulking and cake decorating. Not afraid to figure things out or make mistakes that helps with a lot of stuff and is less helpful with some other stuff.

I've got a weird version of "net lazy"motivation. Anything I can do now to make a future task easier, I am strongly motivated to do. Anything that would be easier if I wait for [blank] I will ignore until the ideal moment that would make it the easiest.

It oftentimes leads to peculiar optimizations, but it has worked surprisingly well for me so far.

I have long legs and a long torso. It makes holding snacks out of the reach of my partner way easier.

ability to troubleshoot logically. if something isn't working, I have a knack of figuring out why, but maybe have to lookup how to fix it.

Remarkably limber & agile & can contort myself into small tight tricky spaces, and balance on unstable surfaces, and climb anything.

I have a certain "go with the flow"-ness that helps me glide through.

I can read, and also write. If needed, I will also speak.

I regularly catch stuff that accidentally drops nearby me with my hands or I manganese to soften the hit in the ground by changing it's trajectory with my feet.

That comes in handy as i am clumsy as hell.

I can walk and use me hands for stuff. Pretty ~useful~

Knowing four fluent languages and four that I'm not fluent in.

Multitasking really simple tasks. I can do three errands around the house at the same time, and I'm really good at bartending multiple drinks simultaneously. I love cooking because I'm really efficient and time multiple dishes perfectly.

Kind of like the other poster, I can figure out how most simple mechanical things work by looking at them and can usually cobble together a solution to mechanical problems out of random stuff from the hardware store. I'm also really good at fixing simple mechanical and electrical things like bicycles, flashlights, hair dryers, fans, office chairs, etc. I'm also quite handy with a sewing machine and can fix most clothes.

More complicated things like appliances, software, etc I can't do as quickly or easily but I'm still pretty good at hacking together solutions with the help of YouTube and online forums.

Has probably saved me thousands of dollars over my lifetime in keeping things running and not having to buy replacements, but also I lose a lot of time and space to all my "I can fix this" projects.

This is a boring ass answer but probably literary analysis

Read people behavior , consecuence of many years of therapy and being HSP.

Being able to remember dates and times of events and recall them without having to check a calendar