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What are the advantages of being Autistic?

I Sperg

I've just remembered, I actually came here to be helpful to my fellow Autists and Aspies!

I can write a good title, I believe, but now I have to reel in my reader, and get him her or it to reflect on those times where their "being special" gave them a "head and shoulders" advantage over the Neurotypicals. 

So if you've got any instances, where being on the spectrum is clearly giving you an advantage  please, try and share it with the rest of us.

THIS thread COULD be a useful resource, for those of us who feel Autism is all disadvantage, or those poor souls who have little idea of the great power they can be weilding without understanding..

Which to be frank, is where I've been for the vast majority of my life and if I can save ONE OTHER PERSON from that particular fate, with this thread, I will have "won" under the rules of the game I play...  I know some people will post good stuff, and I'd like to say thank you up front, rather than be cluttering up the thread with my comments.

This, although part of my schtick is for YOU GUYS, I'll be busy wittering on another thread, although, I'll monitor this one of course, I may learn somethinig useful! :c)

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  • I appreciate being able to focus on one particular thing for a sustained period (even though it might take me a while to get there). Also I find mind modelling really easy. I’d almost describe it as natural. Trying to explain to NT’s how you’ve planned something out and where everything is going to go and how it will work, when you’re stood in an empty room, is always fun. The dumbfounded look on their little faces!

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  • I appreciate being able to focus on one particular thing for a sustained period (even though it might take me a while to get there). Also I find mind modelling really easy. I’d almost describe it as natural. Trying to explain to NT’s how you’ve planned something out and where everything is going to go and how it will work, when you’re stood in an empty room, is always fun. The dumbfounded look on their little faces!

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