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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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  • Ability to recall past events in extreme detail (this can also be a negative depending on the situation).

    Critical thinking

    Recognise someone I met once many years later such as someone who served me in a shop

    Extreme focus if its something I'm interested in

    I don't have a large circle of friends but those who I let in to my little world I am extremely loyal to.

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    I realised that whilst I have strong feelings of "loyalty", and just as Dog loyalty is completely different to Cat loyalty, yet both are strong in tehri own way, we on the spectrum may well define loyalty a little bit differently, or at least place different limitations on it to the Neurotypicals, (or possibly each other). 

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  • in reply to NAS74317

    I realised that whilst I have strong feelings of "loyalty", and just as Dog loyalty is completely different to Cat loyalty, yet both are strong in tehri own way, we on the spectrum may well define loyalty a little bit differently, or at least place different limitations on it to the Neurotypicals, (or possibly each other). 

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