I finally understand why people don't understand me

[PerfectStorm]

I've had the same problem on occasions in the past. I sometimes feel my brain is running at a faster clock speed than everyone elses and they distrust the solutions you think of. When the idea I've thought of works, or I've fixed something in record time, everyone starts looking at their shoes and feels threatened.

Very few of us have this capability. Treasure it

[barrydidit]

That tank top doesn't fit 30 years later but he still loves it. Twice a night.

[darmstadt]

The y2k bug thread set me thinking. At the time I was touring Europe for Xerox hunting down not a Y2K bug, but rather a mystery bug which keeps recurring.

FTFY

[FatLazyContractor]

The y2k bug thread set me thinking. At the time I was touring Europe for Xerox hunting down not a Y2K bug, but rather a mystery bug where the billing routine didn't work in France or Germany or Italy but worked in the UK and other European countries. I tracked the problem down to the CVDate function in VB3, not functioning correctly when the decimal point character was a comma in regional settings. Indeed I was probably the first person to find this problem globally. I also then tested for Y2K related issues and found and fixed a whole heap of them and released this globally within Xerox. The Y2K team had missed this, so I greatly embarrassed them.

Years later I was working at the London metal exchange, I was only there for 7 weeks before I was bullied out by the developers. It all started when on my 2nd day the boss came in and all flustered as someone was able to place a trade before 8am which was illegal and potentially newsworthy. It was agreed it was a good task for the newbie to cut his teeth on, but I had to solve it fast. I was pointed to the VSS repo, and the 10k line stored procedure that was most likely the culprit. I set to work. 60 seconds later I had found and fixed.
The developer that wrote the proc said something like "that was far too fast". Several other times I was confronted for making the team look bad.

I was once described by a business analyst as "bordering on the savant", and a fellow contractor last year said I was "definitely somewhere on the spectrum".

I have recently been watching series 1 of House MD when it hit me. I'm the onery Dr Gregory House of IT.

Don't feel bad for the way you act towards me, it's perfectly natural.

I had always wondered why people here treated you like someone with special needs

I understand you my friend!

[FatLazyContractor]

I've had the same problem on occasions in the past. I sometimes feel my brain is running at a faster clock speed than everyone elses and they distrust the solutions you think of. When the idea I've thought of works, or I've fixed something in record time, everyone starts looking at their shoes and feels threatened.

Very few of us have this capability. Treasure it

sarchasm - the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it

[suityou01]

If the cap fits...

Savant - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

French, from Middle French, from present participle of savoir to know, from Latin sapere to be wise — more at sage
First Known Use: 1719

[suityou01]

sarchasm - the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it

If a double entendre describes a double entendre does that make it a meta double entendre?

[darmstadt]

Savant...

Stands for Screenies Avatars and Neo Turtles.

It's an avatar related guild on neopets, originally a chat group on the avatar chat called UST, but they all have flocked to the guild. There is only about 10 active members left, the rest have all quit/are frozen. They rarely let in people (actually never), unless you were in UST.

Mothersister and everyone else secretly (some not to secretly) want to join. It's one of the most popular guilds out there and has been around for about 5 years.

or: Urban Dictionary: savant

[barrydidit]

No.

a person who is highly knowledgeable about one subject but knows little about anything else

Is your specialised subject dinosaurs?

[FatLazyContractor]

If a double entendre describes a double entendre does that make it a meta double entendre?

Does my huge one fit your little one?