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Positive ways your Autism affects you

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over 5 years ago

Someone will probably correct me that that title of this should be "effects". I'm never sure with that one. Anyway, I wanted to ask you about your positive experiences of being on the autistic spectrum. There will be many examples, it might just take seeing things in a new light. So, in my experience, my positives are:

  • Hearing things no one else does. Super power!
  • Enjoying the small things on nature (NT's just do not seem to "get" how perfect leaves are or take fascination in that. Or waves in the sea.)
  • Not following the crowd. We are awesomely individualistic!
  • Aptitude for music. At school I could pick up any musical instrument and teach myself how to play within a week.
  • Always trying to do the right thing, for everyone, reading each situation on its own merits. Other people always seem to have their own motives (money, power, etc) which clouds their views. I don't care about those things. 
  • Thinking through everything (indecision!) - i.e. not impulsive!
  • Knowledge sponge! 
  • See's humour in most things - I am very childish :p

How does being on the autistic spectrum positively effect you?

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  • over 5 years ago

    Thanks @NAS51133

    • I make some people laugh with some of my sayings, picked up over my life.  One junior school teacher had a saying that I only found out when I said "simple things please simple minds" - his saying was "simple things for simple minds".
    • Always trying to do the right thing, so others learn from my experiences.
    • Lateral thinking on things - outside the box.
    • Focus on the detail rather than some big overview.
    • Perfectionism - do it once and do it right.
    • Specialism in my areas of things - others come to me for advice/help/knowledge.

    There may be other things which will become apparent once I get my full diagnosis.

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  • over 5 years ago

    Thanks @NAS51133

    • I make some people laugh with some of my sayings, picked up over my life.  One junior school teacher had a saying that I only found out when I said "simple things please simple minds" - his saying was "simple things for simple minds".
    • Always trying to do the right thing, so others learn from my experiences.
    • Lateral thinking on things - outside the box.
    • Focus on the detail rather than some big overview.
    • Perfectionism - do it once and do it right.
    • Specialism in my areas of things - others come to me for advice/help/knowledge.

    There may be other things which will become apparent once I get my full diagnosis.

Children
  • over 5 years ago in reply to Eccentric1

    Yes I'm sure there will be :) reading the posts on these forums has made me realise a whole lot of things that I had no idea were related to an autistic related way of thinking. Or I suppose I mean related to the way my brain processes information.