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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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  • in reply to I Sperg

    Careful, you are not supposed to notice those things!

    I always wondered if most people just intentionally ignore things, because once you see certain patterns it becomes unmissable and undeniable. But when I've tried pointing these things out to people they get angry or switch their brain off. For them, the problem is that I've noticed, rather than the pattern existing.

    Anything that threatens someone's world view is almost like a personal attack on them, so they ignore facts. But my brain doesn't work like that. I will keep pulling on a thread and even become obsessed.

  • in reply to Untoward

    As a young child I picked up on the fact that although a great deal of cinema was reputed to come from America, only the actors, actresses & crew seemed to have american looking names when the credits came up...I actually asked my parents "Why is that?" but they neither knew why, nor found the data point interesting. Learning the answer to that question bought me to learn about some very unsavoury characters, and to be honest I often wish I hadn't noticed then in later life followed up on that particular detail  I know you asked JN91, I hope my answer isn't also unwelcome. 

    In me there is seems little in the way of "kind of details" it's more that WE NOTICE. 

    We often do not understand what we notice though, but also the N.T's often find our casual questioning of the many untruths that prop up their worldview (particularly when they come form a child or subordinate) very irritating, just as I find N.T's almost blanket refusal to "take ownership" that often hides behind those casual "fibs" very irritating.

    It would appear to my way of thinking, that once society loses it's love & promotion of casual dishonesty an awful lot of our "disability" will melt away... So keep noticing those details, folks.