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The advantages of my autism are... (Whinge free zone)

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Whats your advantage?  One of mine is the ability to do a very rapid data mine on a subject in under an hour on the Internet and sound like I know what I am talking about afterwards... Oh your into candle making!  Crack a few wick jokes, wax eloquently and remember the info for ever, even though I cant remember where I left my keys!

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  • The advantage can be that professionals pretend to take notice of you far more. If so the disadvantage is exactly the same as the advantage except via a more convoluted process. ASD people can be the same as Jupiter is to a professional astronomer in a means to an ends way, or just a way to make a living. But to be fair there is that well known limit to how anyone can be understood where it is so difficult to know what goes on in another mind. I.E a universal kind of matter. Putting that aside i ask myself fairly frequently what any advantages are & am never sure. I think there are times when its unfair to be expected to be understood = advantaged by ASD, other times not.

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  • The advantage can be that professionals pretend to take notice of you far more. If so the disadvantage is exactly the same as the advantage except via a more convoluted process. ASD people can be the same as Jupiter is to a professional astronomer in a means to an ends way, or just a way to make a living. But to be fair there is that well known limit to how anyone can be understood where it is so difficult to know what goes on in another mind. I.E a universal kind of matter. Putting that aside i ask myself fairly frequently what any advantages are & am never sure. I think there are times when its unfair to be expected to be understood = advantaged by ASD, other times not.

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