Autistic strengths

I'm going to go with what I think are the positive things others have told me about myself more than 3 times: assessing my superpowers is not one of my superpowers.

"you are

Kind,

inspirational,

creative,

very talented,

Positive"

"I cant figure you out."

"is there anything you don't know?"

"You remember THAT?"

"Your hilarious."

"You are so, well, yourself."

"I never met anyone like you"

"Do you not have a filter?"

"stop dancing and walk, we're in a grocery store!"

"My child wants to say hello to you."

"crikey, that's a loud laugh."

Im a more of walk the walk type as words are words they are oftern hollow words where as actions and people makeing youthings always mean a lot more than vile weasal words or bad actions i promise is the most over used frase used my ficckle people who are liars allways lieing is an art if you havent a good memory forget it you will be discovered in days minutes and seconds i have ied in the past and had to bear lots of concequinces as a result life is never plain sailings as seas are very rough if life was so easy we whould be millionaires but then there problems are amplified 100 percent life will always be hard lots of people are under the ilsion that can always be easy love and war always have a way of comming into the equations  some way down the line

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Operating on a different level socially / having different social values than neurotypical people

Yes absolutely! We question neurotypical social expectations and are individualists.

Operating on a different level socially / having different social values than neurotypical people

honesty seems a big one, but its not a good thing.... 

every instance of honesty has always lead to bad things, to rejections and so on... honest to a fault, and if your so honest you will tell your faults and you will be rejected for them because society isnt wise enough to respect that its better to know and be more aware of faults than it is to focus on good things and sell yourself. to be aware of faults and open and honest about them means you cant be taken by surprise, you know your weakness, you cant fail without seeing it before as you know where youd fail at, you analyse better, you aware more. honesty is good but society doesnt want honesty, society wants liars that can talk the talk but yet cannot walk the walk

This you tube video made me relise i am autistic as there are 20 traights of neuro diverse people and i can relate to nearly all of them i will leave a link https://youtu.be/rjiJebsPKyU?si=R0KPyZWL5HF_dnSu

Anything with more than three chords used to challenge the Status Quo...

Great strengths and qualities to judge.

Aw love this thread! My strengths are im an extremely loving and supportive mother and I’m very caring

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!

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Noticing things people usually miss

Yes, and in my line of work this often means that I spot mistakes being made by my colleagues.

Whilst this [IMHO] is a GOOD thing as it identifies bugs before we roll out a solution (IT), it can have a negative impact as others feel like I am criticising their work. 

Another good strength is that I can (almost always) offer a different perspective. I hate the term "thinking outside the box", but that is literally what I mean. I often bring a different thought process to my NT colleagues - something that is not always welcome, because it challenges the status quo.

Imagination  

Honesty ♀️

Creative

Noticing things people usually miss

Knowledgeable on things I like

Here’s the most comprehensive list I’ve seen..

https://xminds.org/resources/documents/web%20files/aspie%20criteria%20by%20attwood.pdf 

Hi Matthew - good question! I've never been able to answer questions on the spot either - there always seems a lot of pressure to answer right away or you'll get the death penalty or something.

My strengths are good memory

Hyper focusing on things I like and enjoy. The hyper focusing can work against me at times but overall I see it as a strength not a weakness.

Great eye for detail

Repetitive nature

Very honest and reliable

Quick learner

Always prepared 

Intense passion for the things I love

There may be more but this is all I can think of right now.

I love this question.

My main ones I think are 

- Detail focused which means I can pick up things that others do not

- Ability to do precise tasks repetitively, I'm a great person to have around for lab work

- Following instructions precisely, sometimes this can be to my detriment, but again it's really useful for lab work

- Pattern spotting, I'm great at picking up trends and patterns in data, behaviour, text.

- Very honest, while this can be a negative, it also means that some people seek me out specifically as they know I will not placate them. 

GPK26 said:

Very honest - too honest for my own good!

Oh yes, me too! I forgot to add this to my own list!

I think my autistic strengths are:

• My memory is a sponge so I’m a great source of random information. I’d be an asset to any quiz team.
• Hyper focus - when I’m interested in something I can focus like crazy and get an amazing amount of work done or learn a great deal in a very short space of time.
• i am very very honest. I know some people don’t like that but I do.
• I’m a very structured thinker and systematise everything which has been a great help in my career (IT). I apply the same processes to my life - I have lists, notes and spreadsheets for everything, a sort of extension of my brain to make up for poor executive function

edit:

• I’m always on time. Not late. Not early. Always bang on time. (If this goes wrong for some reason I get quite flustered)

I wish that I had the memory strength - I usually struggle to remember what I had for tea yesterday!

The strengths that I believe I have include

• Very detail orientated
• Curiosity - even to child like levels at times (I ask lots of questions - even basic ones to try to avoid ambiguiiy)
• Very logical & structured
• Critical thinking
• Ability to "think" and visualise processes 
• Very honest - too honest for my own good!
• Very open and say it as it is

Having said that, some of those strengths can and do work against me.
I'm probably one of the least "PC" people around and I do have to be careful with what I say in some environments!

Most of my strengths enable me to be very good at my job (IT Process Automation) and for the most part, I thoroughly enjoy my job and feel that I really have "found my calling".
However,  having those "super powers" can be frustrating for me when my NT colleagues do not seem to have the ability to think in the same way as I do.