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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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  • Troubleshooting, problem-solving, doing a thing without being intimidated by oppressive NT rules like 'staying in your lane'. Hyper-focus, making faster seemingly nebulous connexions... being able to tap into my senses as the tool for calcuation they're supposed to be. If one is able to find or stumble into the fundamental principles of a system, being able to grasp deeper sets of knowledge. 

    When I've seen brain imaging of Autistic individuals and they continue to be presented as brains which are making faster connexions, but clearly overwhelmed, it makes me think it's similar to an escape room with stuff that just keeps appearing and needs to be contniually moved or suddenly gone around in order to get to the exit (from thought to communication). An NT brain on the other hand, is less murky. There's a task or an item and then, the exit door. 

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  • Troubleshooting, problem-solving, doing a thing without being intimidated by oppressive NT rules like 'staying in your lane'. Hyper-focus, making faster seemingly nebulous connexions... being able to tap into my senses as the tool for calcuation they're supposed to be. If one is able to find or stumble into the fundamental principles of a system, being able to grasp deeper sets of knowledge. 

    When I've seen brain imaging of Autistic individuals and they continue to be presented as brains which are making faster connexions, but clearly overwhelmed, it makes me think it's similar to an escape room with stuff that just keeps appearing and needs to be contniually moved or suddenly gone around in order to get to the exit (from thought to communication). An NT brain on the other hand, is less murky. There's a task or an item and then, the exit door. 

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