>> The way I think is definitely neuro-atypical, though my linguistic skills are way above average and my math skills aren't slouching. <<
I'm not much good at math.
>> Face recognition is average, and I'm terrible with remembering names unless I met someone name-first (like in a chatroom, or via DW or LJ), but I can pair people with skills or useful details pretty easily.<<
I'm bad at names too. I'll remember names/faces of people I interact with frequently but otherwise they tend to seem vaguely familiar and that's it.
>> Now that I'm fully Awakened, I get a boost with knowledge via nonlocal recall, <<
Yay!
>> but it comes at a nasty cost. I can either do magic at a high level (and thus stay Awakened) OR be a competent engineer and builder of things, apparently. <<
Yeah, a major drawback of incarnation is that it's like working with a tiny hard drive. If you can download stuff from the rest of your soul, that's terrific ... but it won't all FIT in the body. You have to pick and choose. There's never enough space and it's always a pain in the neck.
>> but we'll see how long that stays so. It looks like something to do with the body (built off someone else's pattern), rather than with my soul, so it might not stick later. <<
LOL yes that part is like moving into a new house. ZOMG what were they thinking with this fugly pea-green carpet?
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dancing_serpent
Re: Thank you!
Date: 2016-04-11 11:49 pm (UTC)I'm not much good at math.
>> Face recognition is average, and I'm terrible with remembering names unless I met someone name-first (like in a chatroom, or via DW or LJ), but I can pair people with skills or useful details pretty easily.<<
I'm bad at names too. I'll remember names/faces of people I interact with frequently but otherwise they tend to seem vaguely familiar and that's it.
>> Now that I'm fully Awakened, I get a boost with knowledge via nonlocal recall, <<
Yay!
>> but it comes at a nasty cost. I can either do magic at a high level (and thus stay Awakened) OR be a competent engineer and builder of things, apparently. <<
Yeah, a major drawback of incarnation is that it's like working with a tiny hard drive. If you can download stuff from the rest of your soul, that's terrific ... but it won't all FIT in the body. You have to pick and choose. There's never enough space and it's always a pain in the neck.
>> but we'll see how long that stays so. It looks like something to do with the body (built off someone else's pattern), rather than with my soul, so it might not stick later. <<
LOL yes that part is like moving into a new house. ZOMG what were they thinking with this fugly pea-green carpet?