Living as autistic isn’t exactly great (it’s a disability after all). But I know plenty of autistic people who are great, and autism probably contributed to their personality in some way
Living as autistic isn’t exactly great (it’s a disability after all). But I know plenty of autistic people who are great, and autism probably contributed to their personality in some way
I agree with this - the majority of our autistic traits lead to a net defecit in quality of life but some can be turned to our advantage.
Our special interests can be powerful in allowing us to persue a career that really interests us.
Our hyperfocus can allow us to run rings round out NT counterparts in certain specific situations.
Our heightened senses can allow us to spot things that elude most NTs, whether it is pattern recognition, smells etc, making us good in some detectiving (is that even a word?) situations.
These have quite narrow applications and often require us to endure a lot from out other autistic traits so we don't always get the joy from them that we could.
On balance I would say it isn't so great - I think I would happily swap a few of my "superpowers" for much less mental stress in life.
