Oh yes, I wanted to write about this in the morning, then forgot until just now.  Savantism.[br][br]So in reading about autism I couldn’t help wondering if I have any savant traits.  It’s a hard thing to say. I mean, no, I don’t have a photographic artistic talent, and I can’t rattle off 10-digit prime numbers after only 30 seconds’ thinking time.  But music. A rough calculation of how many CDs I own, plus mp3s, plus room for songs on the radio that I’ve never owned, and I realise I actually have all the lyrics memorised to roughly 15-20,000 songs.  Not just lyrics, but harmonies, bass lines, metres, etc. And when my mom used to teach music to a college and she needed examples of different lesson topics, she’d come to me and instantly I’d have a full CD of music reeling off the top of my head.  And when I remember events, I can always remind people what music was playing in the background, and everything seems to follow on from there.[br][br]But the really interesting thing I discovered some years ago is that I have this uncanny ability to correctly guess the year of release for any song, dating right back to the ‘60s.  It started out as a game George and I played one night.  Then, because we’d stumbled upon this previously unknown party trick of mine, he’s decided to test me on it with basically every song he’s played for me since. And out of hundreds of guesses, the ONLY time I was wrong was when it was Pink Floyd (which really makes you realise just how ahead of their time they were).[br][br]So I mentioned this to my mom, and she put me on the spot and asked me to guess the year for ‘Mr Roboto’ because I had it playing on my profile playlist here.  She said she remembered the year it was out, so she could instantly tell me if I was right or not.  I guess 1983 and she said I was wrong; it was on the radio endlessly when we were moving to Arizona, which makes it 1985.[br][br]Well.  I felt embarrassed, and disappointed, to say the least. But then this morning I had this inkling and decided to look it up on Google…and sure enough – it might have been on the radio plenty in ’85 but it was actually recorded and released on the album in 1983.[br][br]My mother tried to downplay this talent of mine. ‘It’s not that strange, Vrinda. You’re just comparing the songs to other songs you know, and you know what kind of technology was popular at the time.’ Well, yeah, that’s true…but I wasn’t around most of the time I’m guessing; I’m only 25.  And I’m making comparisons with a mental library of 15-20,000 songs. And (barring Pink Floyd) I’m ALWAYS right!! Isn’t that just a little bit special (albeit totally pointless with no useful applications)?[br][br]Don’t take away my super powers.  As silly as they may be, I like them. Even if I do now feel this ludicrous anxiety every time I make a guess, as if THIS time will be the one when I’m wrong.