What do you like about being autistic?

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Being a heartless sex-hound.

not caring what everone else is(insert term)

I have got a smashing memory, I find it easy to learn things about my hobbys, I am prone to focus, I have got a great sense of humour, I think in a different manner which sometimes can be good, I am ordely, I am a very honest person.

best thing i like about been Autsistic is my excellent knowledge of numbers on trains as we should know by now my freinds who know me on WP forums

my weakness is been shy around people in public and eye contact is so extremely hard though

I like having an incentive to see the world from a different perspective.

I like not being sucked into the grindmill of society. Standing on the edge and observing is just as good.

I want to be sucked in and made into mince but I'm not allowed because my brain is funny.

This is such an interesting thread. I'm not used to thinking of positives about it in terms of myself, though I appreciate the uniqueness and intelligence of my Aspie son.

For me: I have an excellent memory and almost always win "can you name this book" quizzes. I'm not hung up on conventional standards of attractiveness. I appreciate differences and diversity. My personal values are very different from the mainstream.

Edited to add: I really love having a sense of humor. I don't know if that's related to being on the spectrum, but it often seems that the most "normal" people I know don't have much of one. The one thing that most annoys me about depictions of Aspies in movies and books is they are always shown as having no sense of humor, which is not at all true in my experience and in that of my friends.

I also like not being needy and/or always having someone to entertain me or keep me company. Being self-sustained feels good.

I'm also relatively cheap since I loathe shopping in general, especially shopping for clothes, shoes etc, also I hate every expensive social normality that others take for granted as their own - my laptop is all I need.

I like how it enables me to have encyclopedia-like knowledge on certain topics.
I like how it enables me to not care about conformity.
I like how it makes me quirky.
I like how it gives me an excuse to act the way I do.
I like how it just makes me different; because I like being different.

I've been realizing that a need for routines can actually be an advantage. I've resisted taking care of myself my entire life, and now that I'm older and have a kid, it really is no longer optional. I've been working out every day (barring sickness) for several years now and as I said to someone the other day, "it's just what I do. I don't even think about it." Taking better care of my teeth was a major hassle at first but now that too is just what I do, and I feel weird if I skip it.

I see this with my son, too. Really hard to get him to take care of himself, but once the routine is down, it's okay.

I'm my own person.

Though it meant it was very hard to make friends when I was younger, I do like that I have a pretty fail safe way of knowing who my true friends are lol.
My friends that like me and stick around are the ones who love to learn and actually enjoy listening to my monologues about metabolism, forensics, politics, etc.

I actually was talking about this with one of my friends the other day hahaha. She said that my personality makes finding friends a very "natural selection" process (we're both in the same bio course and we'd just had an exam on evolution and sexual selection lol) because the ones that don't like to listen to me get weeded out

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