On the good side, I was (before I retired due to the fact that my "growing" disabilities were becoming somewhat "insurmountable"), very good in the general of field of "computing" in general, not just programming, but gathering "requirements", developing program specifications, designing both individual programs and computer "systems", and even teaching (I taught college courses "on the side" for many years, primarily (but not limited to) IBM mainframe assembler language (BAL) and C++). However, now due to my several disabilities - particularly my critically bad memory, I'm pretty close to being incompetent.

As an example of just how good I used to be, I once wrote a complete compiler for a high-level language all by myself (the vendor of said language (the “vendor” was IBM who was then the largest vendor of computer hardware in the world (and if this isn’t obvious by now it was for a mainframe) was totally dropping support for that language and suggesting that "users" of the language "replace" it with another "similar" language (from another vendor, no less) because they thought that it was better for people to use a "standard" language than it was for them to use a "proprietary" language that they (IBM) had to support, which that was - and the "original" language wasn't even available any more on the latest version(s) of the machine's operating system) which didn't help the major corporation (I won't name it other to say that they are, by far, #1 in the world in their "industry", and it's a major industry so that I can absolutely guarantee with absolutely no doubt whatsoever that you have not only "heard of" it but have also almost certainly spent a significant amount of money on their "products" over the years, probably starting before you were in grade school; and they have literally thousands (if not tens of thousands, particularly since they were then and are now a "global" corporation) of employees) at all because they had literally hundreds of programs written in that language which is why they were totally willing to let me at least "attempt" to do the task (my "compiler" was at least somewhat of an interpreter" because it turned the program(s) into a (large!) series of calls to subroutines and functions written in assembly language) and they were completely happy with my final results (I was an independent contractor and not an employee; and this was at their corporate headquarters), particularly since it took me less than three months to do it in its entirety and I had a somewhat-working version (it was usable with some amount of manual "editing" which I also did when needed) in less than a month for what they considered to be the "most important" programs written in that language).

And on another note just so you can fully understand (maybe this is “bragging”; but because I have “fallen so far” because of my memory loss in particular it pleases me to remember how good in this field I at least used to be) I once knew (very well because I used them one or more times in “real” products/projects) 10 different computer languages, depending upon how you want to count them (for instance, I am counting “regular” Basic and “Visual Basic” as one language, as well as C and C++ and the three different “assembly” languages I used to know – and, even there, I am counting the assembly languages I used to use for the 8008 all of the way up to the Pentium as one language; and, as far as my C++ competency goes, years ago I took a C++ “competency” exam administered by Microsoft (Microsoft evidently considered C++ a very “difficult” language, which it is, and felt that they could “filter” people out by using this exam; but they “dropped” the program a number of years ago because I think that they felt that C++ really was too “difficult” to be a “mainstream” programming language and they came out with C# (as well as the introduction of Java (by Sun, as I recall)) which made C++ effectively obsolete”) and it was a two-hour exam that I finished in about 45 minutes and the Microsoft employee who had administered the exam called me the next day from Microsoft’s corporate offices to tell me that #1. He and several other people in the room who had made a comment about it as they were leaving felt that I had left after 45 minutes because I had “given up” on the test, when, in fact, I tied for the second highest score ever up to that point, and he said that he thought that if I had spent another 15 minutes “going over” my answers on the exam before I left I would have gotten the first “perfect” score ever up to that point because he felt that all of the questions I had missed were “easy” (his words)). Simply put, I never met anybody in my 30 years plus of programming (and related tasks) that was even close to me - I was very, very, fast and I had a reputation for “delivering” programs that had absolutely no “bugs” (no, I am not perfect nor infallible nor God; rather it was just that I was a also very good “tester” and I managed to find and fix all of the bugs that anybody (specifically, me) ever found before I “delivered” the program). Believe me, however, that is not even close to the case now. (And as a real irony in this situation if you are not at all aware of it, being very good in computers is very likely a "side-effect" of one of my more-minor "disabilities" - people who have this disability and largely "overcome" it (which I apparently did) tend to be very good in one or more of computers, mathematics, and the arts (particularly music) - and I was very, very, good in the first and quite good in the "music" category of the third (but mathematics not so much because a fair amount of mathematics requires what is, simply put, memorization; and memorization has always been an "issue" for me). And if you are "curious" about what that "disability" is, do a Google search for "computers mathematics music disability" and it shows up (as the second "hit" on the page as of this minute) - and believe me, I had virtually every one of the "symptoms" listed in that "article", usually to a very-high degree. And this is a well-documented side effect of said disability (why you can do that particular Google search to find it); and the only other person in the world that I am both aware of and know anything at all about their work that I would put on a possibly “higher” level on the "computer competency" scale than I at least use to be is Rex - and I'm not even going to speculate as to whether Rex has it! :) )