Do Aspies normally suck at everything?

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I have very low self-esteem because I've been treated like sh1t by most people all my life, even now. I am basically not capable of even acting normal and wherever I go, many people will be very horrible towards me. How am I supposed to have good self-esteem? Having low self-esteem doesn't mean that I think that I suck at everything. I still know I am intelligent and are better at certain things than other people (such things as dealing with logical problems and numbers). The problem is that because of my poor social skills and low self-esteem, even my strengths often get disregarded by other people and hence it is actually affecting my carrer development etc, which makes me feel really incompetent (though I know I am not incompetent).

Don't know about others, but I suck at everything. I'm an underachiever and proud of it.

I suck at most things and I am an underachiever but I'm not proud of it. I know you're referencing the Simpsons btw. The district psychiatrist Dr Lorren Prior "Bart is an underachiever and yet he appears to be, how should I say this, proud of it".

I wish I could find something I suck at, it might actually give me a reason to try. When I played soccer, football, baseball, and basketball I quit each because they were too easy. I am great with electronics and tools. I am also a great swimmer. I can't ever say I suck at anything and it irritates me. Oh and since I found this site my self-esteem has never been higher.

I like Bart, and I like his attitude.

Personal Strengths: Most academic subjects at school, funny, can present myself well, singing, video games, some one on one sports, likeable(even amongst peers)

Weaknesses: most sports(especially team sports), most creative school subjects, clumsy, disorganised, easily distracted, prone to stress, can say the wrong things, struggle to find good things to do

Most of my strengths were not discovered till high school. I'm fairly happy with my personality.

Yeah, I suck at everything.

I don't blame them for having low self-esteem especially when the public's perception of Asperger Syndrome is either a regular Adam Lanza or a 12 year old Einstein-like genius.

As you can see concerning the latter, is the public has only a two-sided extremity perception of Asperger's. Most people can't fathom the idea of aspies being mentally and/or academically average as any average school student with no gifts or talents to match. But that's unfortunately where I'm at. I've neared the underachiever and proud of it stage in my life.