I was pretty much an idiot savant before getting sick. Of course many people thought it was more idiot than savant.

Now I'm different. Concentrating on anything is scary since it can be interrupted by pain. My thinking is more fluid and more intuitive than it was. Where I used to develope equations and solve them in my head and could get most any estimate to within an order of magnitude, I'm lucky to get the simplest arithmetic problem correct now even with a pencil and paper or a calculator. Much of my problem is fear. It affects what I do and what I can post.

I have to choose threads and words carefully and still delete a lot of posts.