What are some good things about AS/ASD?

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What are some good things about AS/ASD that you can think of? Some see it as a list of all negative behaviors. I don't agree. I think the positive things in all of our personalities would change or disappear if our ASD disappeared. Yet most of the time we are just venting here, since I won't deny there are negative parts. But there are negative parts or frustrations in the lives of Nts also.

I see kids with different disabilities and wonder what parts of them would still be there if they were cured. I think some of the good things would disappear as well. Needing time alone is a good thing to me, once I wouldn't have without AS. I don't have a lot of close friends (and most of the ones I do have are online) but the ones I do have, I keep and are long lasting friendships. I don't think keeping friends would be as important to me if I didn't have AS. Listening skills-I struggle to make myself approachable but since I don't like talking about myself, listening to others can be easy, not always. But if it is an emotion I can't experience, it is easy to just listen. I am sure there are others. Finding strengths is difficult. Yet I don't see myself as all negative.

Opinions? How many postive things can we think of?

Special interests. An outside POV.

Very good attention to detail

I like that I'm different, that I can think outside the box, that I don't follow blindly.

There are a lot of lists out there for this so that might cut down on your responses. Here's a few.

The ability to view things dispassionately. Most people can't look at certain issues logically and they have to get emotional about them.

Loyalty

Honesty and directness

The ability to see solutions that don't occur to most people

Catching details that most people miss

The ability to entertain oneself much longer than most people.

I love all of it.

Any disadvantage to AS is just a result of being outnumbered.

My thoughts are independant rom those of my same age and same sexed peers.

I enjoy my own company.

I have an unusual accent fo someone who grew up close to the west coast of BC, hence my username.

I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a Kinks Fan in 2011 and beyond, because I'm brazen in that respect.

Where the NTs falter, I keep on standing.

I express my sprituality and religious beliefs freely whether people like it, or not.

I don't feel the need to follow the binary code of the female human gender.

I'm not afraid to dress like something out of the British 60s, because that's my way of being myself.

I have what it takes to be the last person on Earth.

I like unusual colours.

I wouldn't dare choose to hurt a soul, because I know what it's like to be hurt emotionally and physically.

I was able to pick the perfect role model for myself. That in itself helps me to really think before I post, which is why my posting has slowed down drastically. I think and know not to post hurtful things 95% of the time, where as I'd post anything that was on my mind at the moment, during my black Punk Period.

I can amuse myself really well on my nights at home.

I have a wild imagination.

I'm an independent worker.

I like unusual pets, such as rats. :O)

Loyal, honest, genuine, trustworthy, creative, attention to detail, thinking outside the box, great at repetitive tasks, can work at speed with great accuracy, above average intelligence, tolerance, free-thinking, erm...a load of other stuff.

Personally being aspie protected me from a lot of things that would have destroyed NT's, it made me stronger, it is also responsible for my being opinionated, loud, genuine, and just generally awesome

Well, I can name the negative, then the positive twist to them.

I don't trust easily. But those who earn my trust I am extremely loyal to.

I can find it hard to get started on something. But what I do get started on I focus on so well I can accomplish much more than a normal person.

I have trouble seeing things the way others do. But I can pretty much guarantee you I'll have out of the box thinking, in fact your out of the box is my box and your box is my out of the box.

I may get caught up on a detail. But I notice those details that other people tend to miss.

I am not as obsessed with socializing and I may seem aloof or rude because I don't feel like talking about who's sleeping with whom. But that means I'm focused on what I'm working on and probably doing more work in half the time since I'm not spending over 50% of my work time gossiping or altering my facebook status.

I don't have very good instincts. But to compensate I've had to build very good analytical skills and can provide a reasoned argument both for and against all the possible various solutions and rationally state why my solution is good beyond "cuz I'm right".

I don't seem to care too much about people or get very invested in their lives. But I probably won't condemn you for having activities some people might find too strange or even deviant. If your idea of a swell time is to dress up in leather, latex and chains and suspend yourself from the ceiling while being spanked by someone in a teddy bear suit as you watch nature documentaries I'm OK with that.

Expanding on that, I don't enjoy normal things like drinking or dancing, enjoy weird stuff like painting small army men and reading technical manuals. But I won't judge you for your weird freaky stuff or disclose it. Whatever flogs your goat. So long as you don't want me to participate I'll be supportive - just return the favor.