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Strengths

Brightspark

I was wondering if you know if you've got any strengths that are stronger because of your autism? I've noticed a few I have.

Honest and loyal: sometimes this works against me but overall I think it's a strength. I don't like liars or lying. Lying makes me upset. I think being honest and loyal is a quality strength.

Heightened senses: this is definitely one of my best strengths. Like I get it sucks sometimes as smell and sound etc can be overwhelming! But my heightened smell told me when food wasn't cooked properly and that my cat had a small infection in her paw which smelt a little but no one else could smell it.

This is all I can think of at the moment. I have MS and my brain is a little tired tonight. I'll add more tomorrow if I think of anything else.

  • in reply to Homebird

    Hello!

    I've also found I'm able to understand when others are facing things and it's hard. 

    I'm sorry you had Covid, glad you're better now. I've luckily never had it.

  • I agree with honesty and being fair. In my work I speak to a lot of people with problems and do all I can to help them and signpost them to appropriate places.. Being autistic helps me to understand when people find things hard.

    I don't like things uncompleted, so if trying to solve a problem I work at something until I have an answer. I remember a few years ago having post for someone else which looked important and using google to trace that this person who was staying with someone nearby. I think the householder was quite surprised.

    I also have a strong sense of smell. When I lost this with Covid I realised how much I relied on it. I too can smell things others miss and realised how much I used this to test things when I lost this temporarily.