What if you finally realize you were a genius all along and nobody ever noticed ?

@WaryWitchWandering oh, the old reverse psychology trick eh...I know how you people work..

@atlantic59 I believe my mother was a high-functioning autistic savant. She was in the military and her assignment right out of boot camp was as an aide-de-camp for a general during WWII. Everywhere that he was assigned during the war she was assigned to travel along with him. Fiji, Guam, Brisbane, and finally the Philippines. Unfortunately she was one of the quite a few WACS that were there that contracted malaria and she nearly died from it and ended up with a nervous system so damaged from a high fever (that would have killed most people) that they had to air lift her back to the U.S. to be treated long-term, and was granted permanent disability. She was medicated and would end up back in the hospital every few years. My father was cruel to her. But I saw something in her that the others didn’t. She seemed to know what things I wanted and had never asked her or anyone else for. She would start offering me rewards if I found what had mysteriously come up missing…her favorite pen, her wrist watch, etc. Within one week I would have the cash, down to the penny including sales tax, for the item I wanted. It happened 3 times in a few months. So I decided to do an experiment and when everyone else was gone from the house one Saturday morning she was sitting in the living room drinking her decaf Sanka and smoking a cigarette. I sat down in a chair and said nothing to her but concentrated on thinking good thoughts about her. Within about 15 minutes she said “Your color is yellow.” I asked her why. She said my older sister’s favorite color is blue and my youngest sister’s favorite color is red. I was thinking “Then I get the leftover primary color.” But she added “You are like sunshine.”

I knew then that she was receiving what I was thinking. I felt so close to her after that. I wanted to protect her from my father. I started thinking when I turned 16 I could get my driver’s license (she never learned to drive and was too nervous to learn by then). And that we could get an apartment together & I could drive her around to anywhere she needed to go, get groceries etc. But a little more than a year later she died, was killed by a gunshot to the head and I was sure that my “father” did it. He was greedy and knew he would get a VA widower’s survivor check every month and not have to deal with her medical problems etc, & be foot-loose and fancy free. He got by with it.

@cherokeepatti that was so powerful! I'm sorry and am also fascinated. Thank you

@atlantic59 This made me think about how people communicate silently without even looking or being close by to others. And that maybe our thoughts travel like radio waves do through the air. Some people can send out signals, some people can receive them and others are able to do both. And then about quantum physics. I do believe it has something to do with quantum physics. There’s so much we don’t know and need to learn about each other and also others and other living things.