What is a Positive about your ASD

I love being autistic.

• I really like I how feel everything more intensely,
• The way I can get into monotropic flow when focusing on my interests and forget everything else that exists.
• The level of hyper empathy  I feel for my neurokin and other people (marginalised groups)
• Being a passionate person 
• Honesty - people have said to me before that it is quite refreshing 
• Being an observer- I immediately notice if someone doesn’t feel comfortable in a social group because I am used to being on the periphery myself.
• Analytical brain - I think very deeply.

I'm really good at mimicking people and characters I hear online. It's a special skill I've always seemed to have and I love it :) 

I like to think I'm a honest and nice person - I try to be anyway. 

And lastly I love that I can obsess over certain topics and never get bored of them ^^

I can tell you what is positive about me- my patience, my resilience, my passion and my love- but I cannot seperate myself from my autism.  

Being autistic has had such a profound effect on all areas of my life that it is just a part of who I am, like being British or a certain age or being queer. 

It affects my relationships.  I find it harder to make friends, but the friendships I do have are strong and meaningful and supportive.  

It affects my communication- and though I find it hard to find words or get them out, I am a good listener and I accept and connect with people in unusual ways.

It affects my organisation.  My dressing table is an explosion of hair supplies and jewelry and fidget toys, but in my kitchen there is a place for everything and at work I have worked hard to get everything in labelled drawers.

It affects my senses.  Being in a busy, noisy environment drains my batteries very fast, but the sense of euphoria I get from seeing the Christmas lights or eating angel delight is amazing.

I am patient with others because I know how it feels to go unheard.

I am resilient because I have survived trauma from several directions. 

I have intense passion for the things I love.  I can think about stories every spare moment of the day, and those stories have provided warmth and comfort for a lot of people.  

Autism is like the ground that I walk on and the language I speak and the air that I breathe.

Autism is my home.

My good points:

I am reasonably intelligent.
I am good at problem solving, often coming from an oblique angle that others have not recognised.
I am diligent.
I am kind.
I am loyal.
I am trustworthy.
I am honest.

However, what elements of these traits are due to my autism, I could not say.

I like that I notice patterns, it makes life a study not an biographical experience often. I love my connection animals, I love the surprise in people's faces when my responses make them laugh sometimes. Love being hypercreative, and objective with my approach to everyday things like parenting.

Is the cup half full or half empty? I believe we all on the spectrum need to work twice as hard as the NT community to remember to see the world as half-full, and this takes constant DAILY practice editation is the key)

Happy New Year everybody

I like that I am very caring and empathetic for people and that I can retain a lot of information about things I am interested in.

I also like having a real connection with animals and birds