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I understand your point, I would like to say I am a rationalise even before my Aspergers condition. I enjoy debate and process thinking.  I enjoy reading all your posts because they are very clear in detail, by lots of detailed thinking.

Hope ~  I tend to slip into emotional child when confronted by the world via overwhelming irrational people or high stimulative sensory enviornments. But I am learning to comfort my child self with a parent mind and this brings me back to adult mode/mind of rational thinking.

Intense ~  I am 40 old male going on 5, depending what day you find me in. lol

Longman ~ Our minds work very similar, but you are the master thinker. I do enjoy reading your posts.

I would like to approach this from a different perspective.

I think it is a mistake to put all people without Aspergers into the same box. While I am not sure that this was Longman's intention, the use of the plural 'they' amounts to a generalisation. Who are these supposed 'NTs' who are not so good at collating information because they do not have the time or patience? I suspect that a subgroup of 'neurotypical' people will have this deficit: the extemely social people pleasers and extroverts; they are unlikely to work with data and computers anyway. But many people without Aspergers, who are simply rather introverted and bookish, are also good at collating information. And not all people with Aspergers are good at it, particularly if ADHD is a co-morbidity.

I prefer to see people as verbs not nouns, which is why I never  say 'I am an aspie'; I say 'I am a person/individual/human with Aspergers'.

openheart said:

I am standing on the top of a plinth with Nt's under my feet, not bad for a stupid guy at first.

I have been labouring under the misconception that you were female! 

Indeed.

I'm a habitual collator and organiser of information. I'm completely happy and absorbed doing it. I even spend holidays doing it.

But that is the way to get a considerable advantage over NTs that balances things out.

I wish there was a way of convincing parents that developing this side of things is potentially important. Rather than discouraging too much time on the computer get them some specialised training to enable them to do it usefully, on productive activities they enjoy.

It was just a logical solving schematic. I like to think in frameworks, it gives me cognitive edges to situations. I find that I am hopeless at first,, then slowly accumulate information/data, the framework evolves by assessment and assessment failure, the tower builds until I am standing on the top of a plinth with Nt's under my feet, not bad for a stupid guy at first.

The moral too that tale is, never challenge or compete with an Aspie long-term, because whilst you sleep and think you have victory, the Aspie moves forward, always forward in victory steps.  

That might be a way of describing how a computer would go about things (OK loosely, very loosely).

But beware of trying to emulate Data from Star Trek (or Vulcan logic) - I don't think its the same as AS despite meeting so many people who believe in it. It is fantasy fiction after all (oh dear I've started something now).

What people on the spectrum can do well is is pursue routine measurements, observations, calculations, correlations.

That's not to emulate a computer, but to carry out enough such operations to build up good working databases from which to make decisions or draw conclusions. We are less likely to get tired or bored doing this.

If you approach it that way you'll find you can beat NTs pretty nearly all of the time. They do not have the patience or persistance to build up a reserve of knowledge on which to base an assessment or statement. They tend to cut corners, guess more, act on impulse, and they know that other NTs are just as bad, and don't check.

The advantage for people on the spectrum is to be able to amass considerable quantities of information, and to have the memory capacity to hold this in their head.

But please don't play Mr Data, or Mr Spock - that's fiction and will just get you laughed at.