What are the advantages of being Autistic?

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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  • Good question - I'm appreciating everyone's responses. I'll keep mine simple - my own "special abilities" (not just talents or skills) I believe are observing and sorting; and I am far more advanced with the logic part of my brain than I am with my verbal/language part.

  • I got stopped by customs once and sent to the green shed to have our car inspected.

    They opened the tailgate, took one look at the 3d Tetris I'd been playing earlier that morning and instantly decided against trying to take it all out and put it back. We were back on our way in seconds. 

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  • I got stopped by customs once and sent to the green shed to have our car inspected.

    They opened the tailgate, took one look at the 3d Tetris I'd been playing earlier that morning and instantly decided against trying to take it all out and put it back. We were back on our way in seconds. 

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