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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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  • Like many others have already said "eye for detail" / "attention to detail". I'm great at identifying issues, picking out detail, working methodically through mass volumes of work.

    Plus, seeing solutions that others can't. I'll generally work through something in my head very quick, see the outcome or thing(s) we should focus on and then have to wait a couple of weeks for everyone else to catch up *

    * I'm always happy to explain details to people, but they often can't understand without more time, or don't want to be told.

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    StayingAnon said:
    Plus, seeing solutions that others can't. I'll generally work through something in my head very quick, see the outcome or thing(s) we should focus on and then have to wait a couple of weeks for everyone else to catch up *

    That's the same for me as well. Although maybe not weeks, but I can see the solution instantly and hold it in my head, whereas other people I work with have to read through it out loud a few times and ask multiple questions before they begin to grasp it.

    I used to get quite frustrated when people didn't understand things that seemed so obvious to me, and I would have to repeat myself over and over. But now I'm more patient because I've realised not everybody's brain works like mine.

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  • in reply to StayingAnon
    StayingAnon said:
    Plus, seeing solutions that others can't. I'll generally work through something in my head very quick, see the outcome or thing(s) we should focus on and then have to wait a couple of weeks for everyone else to catch up *

    That's the same for me as well. Although maybe not weeks, but I can see the solution instantly and hold it in my head, whereas other people I work with have to read through it out loud a few times and ask multiple questions before they begin to grasp it.

    I used to get quite frustrated when people didn't understand things that seemed so obvious to me, and I would have to repeat myself over and over. But now I'm more patient because I've realised not everybody's brain works like mine.

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  • in reply to Untoward

    Or when you're in a meeting or with a group of other people  and you notice something glaringly obvious to you but not others. Or you can see the answer / solution there and then but no one else can.. I either don't say anything and it seems to take ages for everyone else to catch up, or I say something but no one hears me! Or I say something and every one else seems surprised.