I lack to ability write anything original.
I am plagued by something called eidetic memory.
If I read a book or article, it is stored in my head forever. The problem lies in that in attempting to write something original, I cannot tell what is mine from what I read 15 or 20 years ago. So, I can never publish anything, no matter how inspired. I once started writing a novel, only to discover that whole chapters were word for word from a sci-fi novel I read 50 years ago.
Having an eidetic memory does have its benefits though. I can read an engineering textbook and take a quiz tomorrow and ace it every time.
You should check the nets to be sure no one wrote that before:)
Doris! Doris Kearns Goodwin, it’s you!
I once had a room mate with an eidetic memory. It was really annoying, like Sheldon in Big Bang Theory. He would bring up a conversation from months earlier, and tell me why I was wrong today.
On the other hand, he was a really nice guy and a computer whiz, since obviously he remembered everything he ever learned.
Then it turned out that he grew up with Roseanne Arquette and family, and was invited to the wedding when David Arquette married Courtney Cox.