What's Your Favorite Part of Having Aspergers?

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I've seen all these threds about the bad points of aspergers, but none about the good points. Aspergers is both a positive and negative thing, not just negative. I am who I am, because of aspergers. Aspergers can be really cool under certain circumstances.

I love the incredible memory ability. It makes acing history so easy.

It's hard to name a favorite part to something you've never lived without. I just love being a higher power and a greater being than the average human.

cant really say i enjoy enything about it.

The special interests. They make the 'world go round.'

I have HFA. I enjoy eidetic memory. I enjoy my collections.

I used to love my incredible memory ability, too. Then I hit MAB (mid-life autistic burnout) and started losing my cognitive abilities. Now my memory isn't worth shite. All the things I loved best about being me were cognitive abilities and now they're all washing down the drain. So I don't have a favorite part any more.

i enjoy my collections. and self stimulation

The special interests. I love being passionate about specific things.

AS doesn't give anyone an exceptional memory, though if you especially like history, it may make you so obsessive about it that you go out of your way to memorize bits of history most people find boring,

I'm not one to sit around whining about what a tragedy my AS is, but I think its rather silly to act as though a neurological dysfunction that makes one socially inept, frequently ostracized and bullied and particularly weak at juggling the complexities of adult life is some sort of blessing. I am perfectly happy being different than the average, but I'm under no illusion about the fact that my differences often prevent me from fitting in and functioning as smoothly as even the dumbest normal person.

Wait until you're out in the world working for a living before you classify AS as 'cool'. That's when its drawbacks really become serious. And the great part is when you try to explain to someone why you're having difficulty doing something and they tell you AS is just that 'Whiny White Boy Diagnosis' and that High Functioning Autism doesn't really exist. You'll be hearing this speech a lot:

" ______(your name here)____ , We don't feel that you're fitting in with the rest of the crew, you just seem to be out of touch with what the rest of us are trying to accomplish. You don't do things the same way everybody else does and you don't spend enough time interacting with your coworkers...You seem like a decent person, but...well...we think you'd find a better fit somewhere else...so we're letting you go."

Yeah. Even though I have complained about them recently because they kind of take over my life, when I enjoy my special interests, I enjoy them A LOT.

I also like that I have a different perspective and think differently from other people, and that my perspective on things doesn't fit the (often arbitrary) categories of most of the NT world.

I like finding pleasure in small details which go unnoticed by most people, special interests, and my ability to approach things logically.

Hyperlexia - I love to read in spades!

Above average IQ - I love the range of topics and the complexity of subject matter I can read on . . . I enjoy reading what many consider heavy or academic material

My special interest is my stained glass art, becuase I am inclined to the meticulous and repetitive I am able to create large and intricate windows which allows me to share some of my thinking in pictures with those who cannot make pictures in their minds.

I am very happy and satisfied having Asperger's. It has made me a unique and eccentric individual. Two of my special intense interests are roller coasters and house plans. I am working on a model amusement park (HO scale) complete with recreations of historic wooden roller coasters made from my collection of 1920s blueprints. This is a lot of fun. And I have a lot of house plan blueprints that are fun. I am using some of them as settings for a novel I am working on (based on my interests). I can also memorize (without trying) facts around my interests.

I am also a music savant (talent savant). I can play without lessons and in little time instruments I am fascinated with. I travel around my local area giving concerts on these instruments in churches, schools, etc.

My interests are a lot of fun as I enjoy gathering facts and collecting things associated with them. I have never sought the friendships that so many people do. I am extremely content with having only my family around me. I enjoy my personal time with my interests.

An above average IQ isn't something that can be attributed to having Asperger's.

I like being easily entertained and my interests, sometimes. I don't see much good in having autism as an individual... everything can be turned into a vice (interests can overtake life, etc.) and I don't seem to have any of the perks like synesthesia or exceptional memory.

special intrests

My extra cool aspie swagger!! !! ( just kidding)

Special interest and musical talent. It's also nice that I dont feel the need to fill all my time with social BS. I can be happy by myself