What are the benefits/good things about having aspergers?

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Aspies are smart .

Being superfocused like a lot of people on here said. I'd still rather be a normal person, though.

My personal favorite is objectivity. This might go with the whole "peer pressure resistance" thing, but we tend to form our own opinions about pretty much everything. That can go a long way in navigating the whole "high school drama" thing, as we generally can determine who's in the wrong. The obsessions can definitely help with career choices as well. While the rest of the world is beating themselves up on college majors, we just look at our special interest & pick a career that allows us to work within those boundaries.

A good thing about aspergers??

Knowing how my computer works.

For me the best bits of having asperger sydrome is that I can stay extremely focussed on something I'm interested in and remember facts about stuff I'm interested in. Also liking and being good at maths and science.

I suppose being shy and not being a chatterbox at school because of that is helpful. I suspect that a many of my peers would do better if they sat down, shut up, and did their work.

We see the world in a different light i guess and we are smart. Also im not sure about others as i dont know many other people with it but when i put my mind to something i can do it. I work hard at everything i want to achieve. My family also like that im amusing.... apparently, i dont understand why but hey who understands nts!

Aspies start out unaware of things, but they have to figure out the world to overcome their AS, so they realize things that NTs don't. I'm getting much better at reading faces, so now I'm starting to notice subtle signals that a person is about to talk. You can hardly see or hear the signals, but you still notice them. NTs probably notice them, too, and while they don't think much about them, I'm fascinated by them.

Special Interests. They can be annoying and good at the same time. At the moment I cannot get learning C and linux out of my head...

Being able to fluently speak 2 languages and take a college-level class on another at 16.

Being able to easisly remained uninvolved on general social drama. Seriously, I'm glad I'm liberated from all this drama related to complex relationships and such. Also, I am proud of my intelligence and general maturity. Hell, I'm glad I'm not a "normal" teenager.

I haven't found anything good with my HFA yet. I keep on searching thought.

Being internally motivated (in some cases).

People on this forum seem to me to be more intelligent and also more genuine than people I have come across in any group of people before either on the Internet or anywhere else. It can be rather worrying that some people might see this as a symptom of mental illness. In any case, I find this to be a very interesting forum, particularly as many of you young people who post here have similar problems/feeelings to myself when I was your age.

Perhaps if there were more forums like this there would be more genuine friendships, less aggression and more peace in the world.

Nothing.

Well, I have found a few good things about AS, but at this point in my life, there's more cons than pros. I can intensely focus on my interests, but if I lack interest in something, I probably won't do it. My peers in my high school creative writing class have told me that they wish that their minds "worked like mine" after writing stream-of-conscience pieces. Others, especially my friends, value my (generally not excessive) honesty. But that's only because I say what's on my mind, and because I can't lie to save my life, so I just tell the truth.