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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 was 18 years the Finance man on Europe's CFSP crisis management team, leading the guys who sorted out the crashed Albanian economy in 1997, pathfinding Malta's accession into Europe, and stuff I can't talk about. Roughly equal to Nick Hine, the Second Sea Lord, in terms of authority: we were gonged with a Nobel Peace Prize in 2012.

    During my diagnosis in 2015, my X-Men weird did its thing in front of the Savile Club, half the Cabinet, including Boris: they saw me handle a major strategic issue with plenty of foresight, and hand it over to the one person capable of delivering without a ripple. This may be one reason the Cabinet Office is looking for weirdos and misfits: we pay attention to and are good at pattern-recognition at the heart of superforecasting, which was just my starting point: I spotted the fall of the Iron Curtain a decade ahead, earning myself an MI5 Viva, but it took some Intervention from on high to place me where it mattered when: I got to actually complete the join of East and West a couple of years later. Banks are desperate for the skill, too.

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  • I was 18 years the Finance man on Europe's CFSP crisis management team, leading the guys who sorted out the crashed Albanian economy in 1997, pathfinding Malta's accession into Europe, and stuff I can't talk about. Roughly equal to Nick Hine, the Second Sea Lord, in terms of authority: we were gonged with a Nobel Peace Prize in 2012.

    During my diagnosis in 2015, my X-Men weird did its thing in front of the Savile Club, half the Cabinet, including Boris: they saw me handle a major strategic issue with plenty of foresight, and hand it over to the one person capable of delivering without a ripple. This may be one reason the Cabinet Office is looking for weirdos and misfits: we pay attention to and are good at pattern-recognition at the heart of superforecasting, which was just my starting point: I spotted the fall of the Iron Curtain a decade ahead, earning myself an MI5 Viva, but it took some Intervention from on high to place me where it mattered when: I got to actually complete the join of East and West a couple of years later. Banks are desperate for the skill, too.

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