One Autism Trait You're Pleased About

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I love the fact that I have many interests that are special to me, like being a fanatic of Sonic and DBZ and also someone who loves to draw and look at ships/boats and planes, something like that. I also enjoy that fact that I have a pretty good memory, as I can remember fun stuff that I did in the past, and even memories of my childhood. Sometimes, having these traits makes me feel like my own special person

I really enjoy that part of me

All of it. I don't have a lot of the quirks.
Even though I have no friends and family. I do not mind.
I fail at social interractions, and that did make me feel down because I had no idea what was going on, but I still never had any social anxiety.
Before, I realised what that NT's and Sociopaths could exist, it was bad but that was only my naievety.
People probably cannot understand how a hermit can be happy alone.
I feel like Spock, though I have emotions, I'm strictly regulating them more and more these days.

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There are lots of tests online you can take. I've did around 12 from Greenwich and Bournemouth university's. Scored high in most. It's baffling as it seems I'm only good at this with films,tv shows as I'm oblivious to most things when I'm in the real world. Possibly due to anxiety,sensory overload,eye contact. Saying that I have noticed people who I have spent some time around many years later in circumstances where they have been obscured facially. Yet I knew who they were. So my super powers if I was a superhero would art man and possibly super recogniser man! :0D worst superhero ever.

Thank you That's really the reason I started the thread; I was feeling a little swamped by negative emotions regarding my autism, and decided to counteract it by making an effort to identify the positives.

Another trait I particularly enjoy, which has been referenced here, is my ability to hyperfocus on my special interests, as well as my strong imagination. I can turn the most boring events into an interesting story, and keep myself entertained for ages.

Extreme attention to detail and a steel trap of a memory... Although it can be a curse at times as well..

I like that I'm very caring and that I can say I'm an honest man.

Threads like this really help. I forget sometimes that people like us have a lot of strengths. I like that we tend to moral, much more so than the average NT, I suspect. I'd like to think being an Aspie points to an above average IQ.

Aspie's can also make good leaders. I wouldn't necessarily say a better leader than NTs. Thomas Jefferson supposedly had Asperger's (or at least something that caused his socialphobia).

I'll give you an example: I recently managed to persuade the parents of a little girl to take her to the doctor for tests. They were certain her problems were only emotional, but blood tests showed that she did in fact have a serious physical illness with very vague symptoms. I would not have been able to identify it without a combination of obsessive reading on the subject plus the aforementioned pattern-seeking.

People on the spectrum sometimes tell themselves they are useless. That is not true.

Chiming in to say that I really like your profile picture (Kittelsen)! I do research and I think one of the things that makes me good at identifying scientific questions is the ability to see patterns. That being said, oftentimes I see patterns that are not useful; I have a tendency to see faces in everything. I could even draw them or point them out, and people would have to agree, but they won't see it unless I point it out first.

Thank you! For long I didn't have an avatar, and then I thought of this; I'll have to think of something cuter next time

If I was doing research I'm afraid all I would be doing would be looking for patterns and never quite publishing anything because once I'd found one pattern, I'd be looking for the next one!

Being extra talented in something. I am talented in music, like some Auties/Aspies.

You actually described my research life for the past couple of years... I was way more focused during my PhD because I had to, but the postdoc is not being all that productive. If I'm reading an article because of something I have to write, I end up getting inspired and thinking about some connection between what I just read and something else I know, and before I know it I'm designing a new experiment. Thinking about science is my procrastination from doing science...

My ability to enjoy solitude.

A trait I am pleased about is that I have excellent fluid reasoning ability.

Because of poor rote memory and expressive language problems I have had difficulty in school.
Because of being socially isolated I have little worldly knowledge and I'm immature.
I have missense and stop/gain mutations on myo1a and micro deletion on PTEN that give me autistic traits.
But that just makes me different. I very much like the way I am and wouldn't want to be any other way.

My memory isn't great, but I'd say it's my ability to focus intensely on an interest - to the exclusion of all other distractions. Obviously, that talent is a double-edged sword, as it can also be a social liability.