Positives About Being on the Spectrum

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I know that being on the spectrum, for some, is no fun at all. However, everything has its advantages, including being on the spectrum

What are some things you love about being on the Spectrum?

Here's mine:

- I can appreciate music to a higher degree. My music just flows through me, and produces a euphoria like no other.

- My memory goes back to being an 8 month old baby (I think that's an NLD thing though)

- I understand old literature with little to no trouble thanks to my verbal skills.

I also have a great appreciation of music. I'm pretty fond of music theory, too, even though I perceive it separately from the actual music.

I love language, particularly English.

I love aesthetics. If I look at a piece of art, I'll mostly look at the way it looks rather than a hidden message.

Everything I love are things that I appreciate completely. This may sound obvious, but I feel very passionately about some things, to the extent that other people find really weird. I love things and people for what they are.

I love puzzles.

I want to explore things thoroughly. I often feel I don't know enough about a certain subject.

I focus on little details that make me happy.

I don't feel the need to depend on people emotionally. Only rarely. I think this is a positive thing because I can see how much other people suffer from being too emotionally dependent on someone else.

1. I have a mind of my own and I'm able to choose my interests without being influenced by the Popular Culture of today.

2. I have a very intense focus on the things that I need to do and the things that I enjoy

3. I have Special Interests that have cultivated themselves over my 37 years of being alive.

4. I'm able to be my own best friend and enjoy my own company.

5. I'm able to work independently.

6. I don't like to hurt other people, because I know how it feels to be hurt on account of my own differences.

7. I don't feel the need to doll myself up with make up and wear the latest brand name labels and trends, just because of what's lacking between my legs.

8. I have a very attractive face.

I can get very excited over and take great pleasure in simple things that other people might think nothing of.

I am almost never without ideas or creative inspiration.

I feel like I have a sort of an intuitive sense of aesthetic balance and harmony. This has been a part of me for as long as I can remember, long before I learned how to articulate what I was doing.

Learning is very enjoyable and it is easy for me to remember visual images and information in general.

I do not feel compelled to conform to the expectations of my peers.

I have an excellent rote memory.

I have an obsession about Psychopharmacology, which is why I am studying Pharmacology in University (in London).

I can learn long lists of numbers, like pi.

I have a special relationship with numbers, and each number has a meaning to me.

I see the world in a more logical and less emotional way (well, I do lose logic when I'm ill but that's another story....).

I have been called a "walking, talking encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology", but I also read medical textbooks, forensic science textbooks, in fact I have 115 textbooks in my bedroom, mostly oriented around the medical sciences, but some on physics, chemistry, mathematics and computer programming.

In fact I actually like these parts of my autism a little bit more than I hate the other parts of my autism (like sensory overload, severe anxiety etc).

I'm talented and would make a great employee, but I dont fit in the workplace full stop.

So I'm self employed and can find work opportunities like a sniffer dog

it makes me live out in the sticks and not travel much, thus not taking up too much space or global resources. it follows from this that i will not cause anybody any reason to be distressed by my unusual presense 'cept for the once per week i go outside, either to my aspie meetups or into town to get sundries. my lack of social acceptibility means the makers of things like fleshlights and perfect cyberskin asses etc. will get more money from me. the makers/marketers of obscure music will get more of my money, and my lack of financial support for popular culture [IOW britney, et al] means that i am at least doing my part to keep our mutant culture more sane. that is all i can think of.

It gives me very intense focus.

I can be alone for hours--even days--and not ever feel lonely.

I love to learn and to research, and I happily spend hours each day doing just that.

I have a very active imagination/daydream life.

I don't obsess over my weight and looks like a lot of girls do.

I usually have my own unique set of beliefs and opinions.

I can keep myself entertained for hours, or even days.

Sometimes, I wish I could be like everyone else. But mostly, I enjoy being just a little different.

Just dropped by to say this is a beautiful topic.

i just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in.

1. I was never affected by peer pressure, and I feel that is definitely thanks to AS.

2. Although I have emotions and they do affect my decisions in severe cases, MOST of my life is governed by logic and common sense.

3. I don't feel the need to hide who I am under a cake layer of make-up or wear clothes that I don't like just because they are "fashionable", I guess that also saves me a ton of money as I don't have to "update my wardrobe" or buy fresh make-up every season/week.

4. I'm not a genius or anything but I'm considered "the smart one" and I know that's directly down to AS.

5. AS made me the person I am today, and my partner loves that person, so I owe my perfect relationship to AS.

6. I don't feel like I have to give up my childhood to be an adult, like most NTs. I still enjoy cartoons and computer games and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

7. I'm very honest, like most with AS. Some people see this as a flaw, but telling the truth had never gotten me into serious trouble, and because I don't lie, people trust what I say even when it sounds a little... crazy XD

8. I feel like the friendships I've made are more special to me and are as close as they are because of AS, it's hard for me to have more than one close friend at a time, i'm stretching it at 2 at the moment, and that's NOT counting my partner. But i feel the fact that i can't have too many friends at once makes me work on the ones i have more than NT people - I always seem to be more invested in the relationship that others... Not always a good point BUT...

8II. ... I feel AS gives me the ability to step out of my life and take a look at things from another prospective, and i think this helps me see people for who they are and I've always had a knack of "judging the book by it cover" (i know you're not supposed to but I find more often than not the cover is a direct representation of the contense) so I know who I have the potential to get close to, and are less likely to get hurt.

To be honest, the only thing about AS I consider "bad" is the meltdowns, other than that, AS is more like a mindset, a personality, for me that a disability.
It's the co-morbids that do the most damage in my life :/ (depression, anxiety and SID/SPD)

1) I'm 10x more sensitive than an NT. While this sometimes sucks I can also feel things more deeply.

2) I don't give a crap about fitting in.

3) I've been told by some that I'm the "most interesting person" they know.

4) If I'm interested in something I can concentrate very intently on it. This is a good trait to have when creating art.

5) If I was "normal" I probably would have missed out on lots of cool experiences and cool people.

I'm very very funny :O
Unintentionally, more times than not.

I just speak my mind and say what I think or notice... but most times, it when it's entirely serious and logical in my mind, it turns out being really funny in real life. Who knew? Haha.

It used to really annoy me when people would laugh, but now I just go along with it. I now have a pretty good inkling of when what i say is probably going to be funny....If i don't feel like being funny, I just won't say anything

Good memory

Good attention to detail

Have no difficulty in reading maps

Being honest

Reliable

• I get to be in a great community of other Aspies.
• I'm amazing with language (have created my own, complete with writing system) and am an award-winning artist.
• Having grown up being different and teased for being so, I have greater sympathy for people and more understanding.
• My senses are very heightened. That can be a huge negative, but it's still like having super powers sometimes!
• I'm obsessive, so as long as I can have time to be alone and indulge in an obsession (like a movie or show), I can keep myself euphoric for days.
• My vocabulary is spectacular.

We tend to think outside the box and live outside it as well.