Say one good thing about autism.

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Don’t need attention.

Take things from start to finish.

Zero chance of peer pressure.

Can handle solitude.

it might be ADHD related hyperactivity ^-^ I'm the same, tend to have a very childish sense of humour (but i still appreciate a good pun)

The first quote was actually written by Jack Kerouac.

Good with routine and structure
Can make plans and follow through (much improved in just the last five years)

Pattern recognition, detailed observations, and hyper focus.

[color=#00b2ff] Unique point of view

If I wasn't aspie I wouldn't be a writer because I'm a writer to describe my inner world (which wouldn't exist if I wasn't autistic), and poetry writing requires a lot of focus and attention to detail and prolonged work without financial/social reward, simply the sense of 'a job well done'. I also wouldn't be hyperlexic or have read adult books (not mucky books but things like Orwell. The muckiest I got was Huxley which meant I knew how human reproduction worked on a cellular level long before knowing what sex was) since I was 9. I'd probably have the same attitude to modernist/postmodern lit as I see around me, people who look down on it because it's 'hard'.

The only thing which I'd be better at writing wise is I'd be able to promote better and be less shy. Both me and my editor are on the spectrum and my collection doesn't sell well because of that. We also both have social anxiety though so might be that too.

I like everything about being aspie apart from my meltdowns and my sensory sensitivity. These two things seem to be inherently linked. What I don't like is comorbid disabilities like being dyspraxic.

My favourite thing about autism though has nothing to do with me. It's this guy:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/1 ... es-trehin/
It's so cool. Also, stereotypically, autistic males 'lack imagination' but this guy doesn't. He has the same sort of imaginary world that I do only on a grand scale and he's really artistic too. I was looking up 'can artists focus on detail in the modern age' since so many pre twentieth century artists do and then nowadays there's a lot of abstraction. This guy does. I love autistic artists

Wikipedia gives the credit to Rob Siltanen. Now Wikipedia could be wrong. Around 40% of what we believe to be fact with absolute certainty is actual wrong, so I looked a little deeper.

“Mad Ones,” an excerpt from Kerouac’s 1957 book, On The Road:

“I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life
after people who interest me,
because the only people for me are the mad ones,
the ones who are mad to live,
mad to talk, mad to be saved,
desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or
say a commonplace thing,
but burn, burn, burn
like fabulous yellow Roman candles
exploding like spiders across the stars
and in the middle you see
the blue centerlight pop
and everybody goes «Awww!»”

Source: Thief Indifferent

I think I will stay with Wikipedia on this one.

I have a unique and creative way of looking at the world. I also enjoy being autistic. Another good thing about autism is that I don't care what people think of me for wanting to dress differently.

Verbal communication. Autistics are much better at getting the tone of what is being said by the words used, NTwits rely on nonverbal communication for that.

I don't have the problem where people say, "I can't understand you, it sound like your saying *What I'm trying to say*" with autistic people.

I have a silly sense of humour too, but I don't have ADHD.

Sometimes, pure joy.

I'm good with languages

I'm fortunate that I am in decent health. A lot of people here struggle with much more serious issues than mine.

Ever read the big short by Michael Lewis?

There was this guy named Mikel Murry who had aspergers, and was obsessed with finances. He would spend 15 hours a day reading the terms of AAA home loans, loans that were supposed to be the best, the loans that were all but guaranteed to be paid back. Most NTs didn't bother. Hard for them muster the focus to read all those loans, but Mike soon leaned that these AAA loans weren't really AAA loans. The people who took out the loans incomes too low to have any hope of paying the loans back. Mike realized that the gig would be up soon, and that all these loans would lose their value. So he shorted them. That is he borrowed the loans, and sold them with intent of buying them back later when their price went down.

2008 happened. The American economy collapsed, but Mike made millions. He bought back the loans cheep, and gave them back to the people he narrowed them from. To be fair there were NTs who benefited from the financial crisis in a similar fashion, but considering all the NTs who lost their shirts, I think it's safe to say that the ability to focus research, and not get swept up in NT heard behavior helped a lot.

My ability to enjoy being in my own world.