Best and worst characteristic of Aspergers

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Whats your favourite characteristic and most hated characteristic of aspergers?
My favourite is the uniqueness of aspergers. For all my life i wanted to be different and unique.
My least favourite is the problems with decision making. I go into a dvd shop and see a nice cheap dvd that i like but i have to see how much money i will have left over etc. It could take my ten minutes to make a decision.

I hate decision making too.

There's nothing I hate more than being asked annoying questions, as previous people have said, decision making is not my hobby.

Favourite aspect - being able to see things in a different way. This gives me an insight to things from a different angle & people have said that my insights to how the world works (& why it works the way it does) are interesting.
Most hated aspect - Anxiety. I get stuck in bad routines & even though I want to get out of them, I'm too anxious to try anything new.

worst of all: social isolation

best of all: ability to be creative on my own

For my favorite characteristics, it's the fact that I'm perceptive and that I think deeply alot when it pertains to philosophical matters (like when I read a quote, I'll decipher it and then start thinking about the meaning behind it). Also, the fact I'm different and an individual in a society with so many posers who do things just to fit in and be cool.

As for least favorite attributes: A) While I do have a sense of humor (a strange/dry one when it's active), a lot of jokes go over my head or I'll think "I get it, but why should I laugh?". It's just how I am sometimes and I don't try and act "bitter" (though this condition was likely what provided me with my depression. which is an irritating mental illness. Still, I do like some of the perks of AS.), but my brain is wired differently and I want people to respect that, while treating me human all the same. Also, I hate my social awkwardness/anxiety as well. While I wouldn't say talking or interacting with people terrifies me (in fact, I sometimes do okay and enjoy the talks), I always worry about how I'll look, if I'll embarrass myself by stuttering or talking too fast or not finding the words to I need to say what I want to say, etc

And yeah, I know what I described doesn't apply to everybody. I can only speak from my own perspective, since it'd be foolish to assume we all share the same traits. Afterall, we AS/Autistic people are still all people and thus different in some way or another.

Faverate aspect for me is my wacky sense and perception of the world, especially with philosphy and other beliefs
worst, going out, I hate people in the town abecause it is so confusing and I have really bad social anxiety

I don't have aspergers myself, so i'm only commenting on what i see here.

Best of all:- Well meaning, uniqueness

Worst of all:- Lack of insight, flawed logic

For me:

Best aspects: my special interests, eye for detail, pattern recognition, logical way of thinking
Worst aspects: clumsiness, sensory difficulties, not being able to lie

I suppose right now it would be sort of two sides of the same coin,

best aspect: detail-oriented processing

worst aspect: executive dysfunction/difficulty set-shifting

Other days or weeks, it's other aspects.

The best characteristics are: -
. extreme endurance even in the face of immense adversity.
. Loyalty, honour, integrity and compassion.
. Not giving into peer pressure.
. Not putting so much value on having to "fit in"
. Pursuing their own path in life however others see it.

The worst characteristics are: -
. Low self esteem in the worst of times.
. Feelings of hopelessness and feeling that nothing will ever improve.
. Inability to cope with extreme emotions - meltdowns and the like.
. Common depression.

This is how I see it anyways.

Favorite: the fact that I think and analyze things differently than most people.

Least favorite: The need for repetition

I can't really see a best, as whatever "best" I have is equally distributed amongst normal people as it is those with an ASD.

It's all worst*.

*Which doesn't bother me, but that's how it goes.

The best characteristics are: -
. extreme endurance even in the face of immense adversity.
. Loyalty, honour, integrity and compassion.
. Not giving into peer pressure.
. Not putting so much value on having to "fit in"
. Pursuing their own path in life however others see it.

The worst characteristics are: -
. Low self esteem in the worst of times.
. Feelings of hopelessness and feeling that nothing will ever improve.
. Inability to cope with extreme emotions - meltdowns and the like.
. Common depression.

agreed to the d depression and hopelessness are the worst for me to especiallyy my social anxiety to talk and that but I jusst feel lost, I think my other fave points are that I am 100% logical and everything is based around logic entirely secondly my interests over the years, about 6 altogether but have made me quite refined but my fave is my dark imagination, I have twisted humour for sme reason probably because i am more half empty kind of guy

I do really hate the joke thing to the I get it but I a not laughing but I never know why I usually grimace at the best jokes