Best and worst characteristic of Aspergers

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Best: AWESOMEness
Worst: Authority and social BS/hierachy

Worst: inability to effectively deal with change and poor navigational skills.

Best: Creativity, attention to detail, tenacity

Worst is sensory overload

Best is the freedom from having to do what everyone else is doing.

I don't see that, as we're forced to do everything that everyone else does*. Forced into school, forced into work, forced into a "life" that we don't understand innately. Recreation has nothing to do with an ASD; cut-off from outside influence does, but this doesn't decide what you're interested in and what you want to do.

*Us "old" ones, anyway.

Please note that none of the positive qualities mean I am superior to non-autistics and none of the negative qualities mean that I am worse off than non-autistics (nor does this mean that no-one else can experience this).

Best qualities:

Hyperfocus and attention to detail

Analytical nature

Creativity (when I was young, I didn't know how to read until late on and had major deficits in communication, but my visual thinking helped me to develop art skills). Obviously, I'm still learning and do not have savant skills. I just think that I have to thank AS mostly for my art skills (that's not to say that I wouldn't do art if I didn't have it- it's just that the art would probably be very different).

Because of my pedantic nature (and my own idea of right and wrong), I would say that a lot of my morality stems partially from AS

My pedantic nature also makes me somewhat of a perfectionist

Reliable and hardworking nature


Worst qualities:

Prone to outbursts of anger, anxiety or even depression (due to the ambiguity of life)

Difficulty in dealing with those emotions (sometimes I get upset because I'm upset, lol)

Misinterpretation of behaviour (whether people misinterpret my behaviour or I misinterpret theirs)

Difficulty in dealing with stress or dealing with time or organisation

Socially naive (lets face it, lol)

remember that thing about perfectionism? That also sucks. Makes me very self depricating if I don't achieve (or narcisitic if I do, lol).

Just a few to list, I guess

Yes in that way you are correct. We have to do those things like go to places, but inside I don't feel I have to be the same, but you are right again, its different for older people, we have gone through trying to be normal and usually failed and then we get to acceptance of our differences, well mainly anyway.

Best: Hyperfocus
Worst: Low executive functioning.