Autistic strengths

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
  • I don't know... strengths? Some things about me have caused me a whole lot of trouble, so... even though I wouldn't change, now. I used to wish to be like 'everyone else' because I believed that would attract less hostility.

    Characteristics perhaps? 

    Seeking and telling the truth, by which I mean, the facts. This seldom goes down well, since it's common social practice to communicate via a series of prescriptive lies; and gloss over the truth as uncomfortable.

    Upholding truth and justice- another crowd pleaser. .

    Taking people at face value - I don't make generalized assumptions, but learn by observation. The stuff that people use to categorise each other - truly without meaning or merit, for the most part.

    I see everything, pick up every detail, when I'm looking.

    I have no ego, that I can discern. I am unique only insofar as every human is. Basically.

    If there's more, I can't think of it right now! Sweat smile

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  • I don't know... strengths? Some things about me have caused me a whole lot of trouble, so... even though I wouldn't change, now. I used to wish to be like 'everyone else' because I believed that would attract less hostility.

    Characteristics perhaps? 

    Seeking and telling the truth, by which I mean, the facts. This seldom goes down well, since it's common social practice to communicate via a series of prescriptive lies; and gloss over the truth as uncomfortable.

    Upholding truth and justice- another crowd pleaser. .

    Taking people at face value - I don't make generalized assumptions, but learn by observation. The stuff that people use to categorise each other - truly without meaning or merit, for the most part.

    I see everything, pick up every detail, when I'm looking.

    I have no ego, that I can discern. I am unique only insofar as every human is. Basically.

    If there's more, I can't think of it right now! Sweat smile

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