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Autistic strengths

Matthew

My support worker asked me yesterday if I have any strengths. I said no, I couldn't think of any at the time. She then asked me something else which no one has asked me before.

Do I have any autistic strengths. 

At the time I couldn't think of anything. Whenever people ask me something it takes a while before my brain can come up with the answers, and as I thought it would, it's decided to come up with them when I should be sleeping.

Thanks brain! 

From what I can gather my autistic strengths are the following.

  • Excellent memory - I only need to watch something once and I never forget it. Same with going to places, I remember it almost photographically.
  • Very honest.
  • Great eye for detail - often notice things others do not.
  • Can mimic other people and TV characters voices with ease.
  • Repetitive - I can watch the same things and listen to the same songs on repeat for hours. I never get bored.
  • I'm like an encyclopedia of knowledge on the things I like and find interesting.

I would love to hear your own strengths.

Feel free to share as many or as little as you want to.

Parents

  • Nice list.  Got to have plenty of uses.  Next question is how do you deploy that to make yourself happy and benefit others.

    The biggies for me are the logical, analytical thinking - had a lot of fun with that.

    The other is also the honesty to the point of bluntness and the constant quest for social justice.  To use that effectively, I've learned you need a thick skin, but then I'm a craggy old crone now, too long in the tooth to be a sensitive flower about what other people think. I am what I am.

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  • Nice list.  Got to have plenty of uses.  Next question is how do you deploy that to make yourself happy and benefit others.

    The biggies for me are the logical, analytical thinking - had a lot of fun with that.

    The other is also the honesty to the point of bluntness and the constant quest for social justice.  To use that effectively, I've learned you need a thick skin, but then I'm a craggy old crone now, too long in the tooth to be a sensitive flower about what other people think. I am what I am.

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