Could being autistic or having aspenger be a plus?

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I think in my case there are advantages and disadvantages. Advantages include the ability to focus and concentrate to a very high degree on something that interests me, and since some of my interests can have practical application in the work place that is a good thing. I'm exceptionally good at sifting through written information and getting to the core of a problem, and have a very good memory. On a personal level, it gives me a much deeper level of satisfaction in my hobbies... this gives me a rich interior life, and much happiness.

Disadvantages include the fact that I find it very difficult to make and maintain relationships. At the moment I have no friends, just aquaintances, and after some unpleasant experiences where I've been bullied and taken advantage of, I don't feel I'll ever risk trying to make friends again. I don't mean to be unfriendly, but I don't think it's worth the effort anymore.

However, I don't tend to feel lonely. I can communicate online if I want to exchange ideas, I do talk to family, I have at least one good friend in my son (also aspie) and I can lose myself in music, literature or linguistics any time I want.

If I had to choose I'd sooner be the way I am than otherwise. If I wasn't on the spectrum I'd be someone completely different. Perhaps more "successful" in terms of what society thinks... I might find the work place easier to navigate for example, and have a mortgage by now.

But so what? Life isn't about mortgages and fitting in at office parties.

Thank God!

I have perfect pitch, excellent spatial relations, scary long-term memory, and a high IQ.
However, they are constantly thwarted by my disorganization, literal thinking, impulsivity, and social anxiety. Definitely a mixed bag, but I think I'm figuring out how to "outsmart" my weak points. If I can make music supplement my income(I work as a newspaper delivery driver), I'll be very happy. Plus, I think Facebook is an easier way to network than, say, cocktail parties.

You will be judged in life based on your career and family. If you want to know how well you will do in life, review your employment prospects, not your mental labels. If you have difficulty finding work (I do), then you are, I feel, likely to be considered a tragic case or a failure in life, no matter how many labels the nice psychiatrist has slapped on you.

Those last two comments are ridiculous. Having aspengers is a disorder that is going to beat the he'll out of you. Tell it to give it your best shot and just brush it off. I don't care anymore about what it does to me that makes me hate it, all I've been thinking about is wow it really helped me in my life.
I want to become a game designer (big dream) and becoming a known designer is like winning the lottery, and aspengers helped a truck load with me going after my childhood dream. If I didn't have aspengers i would be out with friends instead of thinking how to become a game designer I would be going to parties non stop and who know could have ended up dead in a druck acciedent, I could have got a girl pregnant, I could have became a pimp for all I know, but what I do know is it helps me to stay on track to what I truly belive what i want to do, I don't care if it is 1 in a million chance that I willl accomplish my dream it's the fact that I went after it unlike all the non aspenger folks out there, and I've seen it happen I had a non aspenger friend who can play guitar like a champ but he's becoming a nurse my cousin who is also non aspie is out get knocked up and having sex with all these girls, another friend who is an amazing artist is going to be an oral hygenist.
So beat your self up all you want for having aspies but that's all your going to do for the rest of your life then

Your point was to give up, because have aspengers is so terrible you shut yourself down.
Now you enjoy wacthing those televsion shows which I hear are great puzzles, there T.V shows that boggle your mind. Not many people enjoy that kind of genre. People who enjoy That type of show will usually love the making behind it. What I'm saying is instead of thinking what I Sonia usless start thinking what I do could be used for doing something, could you be a writer, director, movie/show critique? Who knows it's your intrests start building some steps to get higher instead of digging a hole for where your going to lay.

I thought the same way you did for 4 years, what can me playing games do for success? That's all I enjoy even now I just love to plot my but down and play games all day, but I added something to me playing games I critique them, I
get a pen and paper divide it into 2 and ask myself "what's good about the game and what's bad" then ask myself how could it be changed.
Nothing much I can do to fullfill my goal now intll I get schooling for it but I'll work on it till I have the money.
You and I arnt very different just think more positive and solutions will start to
come.