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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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  • advantages?
    you get eye lasers, and super strength and the ability to fly... but all of these things probably require some hallucinogenic drug to kick in first lol

  • in reply to Caelus

    I know at least two Autists who whilst otherwise appearing sane and reasonable people do claim to have an authentic telepathic connection to their pets, including direct exchanges of imagery and concepts from pet to human..

  • in reply to I Sperg

    is one of them called doctor dolittle?

  • in reply to Caelus

    I got the "Alex and me" book for three quid from amazon. That really is enlightening about what surprises you can get out of a small brain, if you look for them! 

  • in reply to I Sperg

    i kinda feel i understand cats a bit better than most too. not allowed one though as my dad hates them and i live in his house lol

    my neighbour had a cat and she was surprised it got on well with me as it supposedly doesnt like people so much, trick is to respect its space really. and if it looks like its ignoring you or sleeping them, well yeah you wouldnt start poking a human while they are sleeping so you just dont do that.

    sisters neighbor has a cat that goes to her house too. sits and stares at me with one paw up like its tryna tell me something, from google search it says it either wants food or it wants to be stroked. so they do kinda have their own body sign language to speak to us that they all weirdly have in common.

  • in reply to Caelus

    Pets are a whole lot more fun and companiable, when you allow that they can have an actual mind of their own, and are sometimes very willing to share with you if you can listen instead of being all stuck up in your own human "supremacy" bullpuckey all the time.

    I think my autism does give me an innate advantage dealing with animals.

    2days!! I lasted 2 days before cluttering up this thread with irrelevance...!

  • in reply to I Sperg

    i was watching youtube vids of this woman that trained her cat to use buttons to talk to her. seemed pretty accurate, even one time she played some music and the cat kept running over to a button pressing it and the button said "noise" the cat clearly didnt like her music lol kept pressing it every time she put music back on.

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  • in reply to I Sperg

    i was watching youtube vids of this woman that trained her cat to use buttons to talk to her. seemed pretty accurate, even one time she played some music and the cat kept running over to a button pressing it and the button said "noise" the cat clearly didnt like her music lol kept pressing it every time she put music back on.

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  • in reply to Caelus

    I got the "Alex and me" book for three quid from amazon. That really is enlightening about what surprises you can get out of a small brain, if you look for them! 

  • in reply to I Sperg

    i kinda feel i understand cats a bit better than most too. not allowed one though as my dad hates them and i live in his house lol

    my neighbour had a cat and she was surprised it got on well with me as it supposedly doesnt like people so much, trick is to respect its space really. and if it looks like its ignoring you or sleeping them, well yeah you wouldnt start poking a human while they are sleeping so you just dont do that.

    sisters neighbor has a cat that goes to her house too. sits and stares at me with one paw up like its tryna tell me something, from google search it says it either wants food or it wants to be stroked. so they do kinda have their own body sign language to speak to us that they all weirdly have in common.

  • in reply to Caelus

    Pets are a whole lot more fun and companiable, when you allow that they can have an actual mind of their own, and are sometimes very willing to share with you if you can listen instead of being all stuck up in your own human "supremacy" bullpuckey all the time.

    I think my autism does give me an innate advantage dealing with animals.

    2days!! I lasted 2 days before cluttering up this thread with irrelevance...!