What Do You Enjoy Most About Being Autistic

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Being apathetic about most social things. I see everyone else stressing out over it, but I feel very little stress about it.

I always wondered how and why I seemed to "naturally" know how to wire a house at age 14. Wired quite a few, actually. They all passed inspection, too.

I enjoy it when something I read years ago comes in handy, when I win at trivia, when my friends are studying for tests and I just sit around giving them moral support. I enjoy it when I play something I heard once before my tenth birthday by ear just because I was bored. The best thing was one night when I was playing with a sixty-five piece band. A nervous soloist came in two measures early. His part was going to run into a strain of countermelody in a way that would have wrecked everything. For you non-musicians, that means the piece would have turned into an awful noise and fallen appart in front of several hundred people. A director who had no use for me was conducting. He could see what was happening, but there was nothing he could do. His expression reminded me of a stunned rabbit I saw as a child. Something happened. I slipped out of the verbal thinking I learned as a small kid trying to look normal and started to think like an autistic person. Pure information and emotion, sound and light, is so much faster, especially when one is under stress. In what must have been fractions of a second but felt like plenty of time, I knew the problem, the almost inevitable outcome, and the only possible solution. I jumped two measures ahead and pushed the way one can with a big, BBb tuba. I played a bit too loud and with great insistence, with the grand, authoritative sound that even a novice can call up in times of need. My second chair was paying attention. He followed. Over the course of the next two beats, the entire band caught on. We piked up the awsome weight of a sixty-five piece band and moved it, cut out two measures in the middle of a concert without saying a word, stopped two freight trains about to crash at the last possible moment, It held together. My heart rate dropped from double time to normal. The conductor started breathing again. That was the proudest moment of my life. No one else in the room could have done it. A neurotypical would have been too slow. It took an autistic person and a tuba.

-I enjoy having the ability to walk into stores, i.e. Shoe stores, scan my eyes over the place really quick, and immediately see something I like, or if there's nothing for me. It saves loads of time.
-Also my decisiveness, I know what I want and what I don't. And I always can cleasrly say yes or no to those things.
-My intelligence, I can write a university level essay about psychiatry, while I'm still in middle school.
-I get a 'high' off of researching my obsessions, it's really one of my favorite past-times
-My theories and thoughts are water-proof. No emotions get in the way of my arguments and it's all facts.
-I can hear conversations clearly from far away when other people can't. It can be a nuisance at times, but at other times it's rather amusing
-I can make good artwork because I pay a lot of attention to details.
-When I'm stressed out or bored, I can close my eyes and think about a book I've read, or a movie I saw and play it over in my head with every detail included, and I can add additions, and also make up my own stories that play like a movie in my head.
-When I read a book it plays like a movie in my head, I heard NT's don't have this and was shocked and pitied them :'D
-Being more complex and having more depth than the average NT

Great topic. What a great necropost to revive.

I enjoy being able to figure out the connections between things, which most other people might not see. I have a gift for puzzle solving/problem solving. I've found I can use it to understand people better, once I begin to understand and think over their motivations and aims.

For example: I can ask myself "What do I need? And what do they need?" Endless rumination and insight can arise from this, ultimately leading to better decision making in my life (granted I don't overdo it, getting lost in circles of thought with no emotional conclusions and resolutions).

I really enjoy being so passionate and focused on something. Having things to do and things that i love to do gives me more purpose in life than anything else ever could. But the rest of autism, i don't really enjoy dealing with, of course/obviously.

Ummmmm....

*Crickets chirping*

If someone complains about my use of the "r-slur" I can tell them to cram it with walnuts.

The ability to enjoy things that I normally wouldn't if I was neurotypical! !!

The hardest part of being Autistic is lagging behind in life milestones like marriage and parenting!

Being an admin to an operating system that does not think for me.

But then, I've yet to be competent enough to handle it elegantly, however.


Not everyone can use the autism toolkit to deep dive into being a human and humanity.
I may be one of those end users who just happened to want the challenge.

So to speak.


Anyone else either sees trade offs or downsides. Traits of good and bad. I don't follow that.

That autism to many meant self-ism. As in egocentry, selfishness and narcissism, to coverup, pretend or whatever trait that redeems them.

I see beyond that BS.
To me, the self became an open source that I can alter. If I reach the mastery in this lifetime, it'll be a grand bonus for me after death.

It's just that being autistic just aligns with my aspirations as a person, to a point disorder or disability is irrelevant to the point.

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