we know our strengths, but what about our weaknesses

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Strengths, hmm. Some, being much more self-aware these days. But I have had 50 years to develop it. Able to read adult subjects in Grade School. Speed Reading by 4th grade. Long-term memory, especially autobiographical. Honesty, good work ethic.
Weaknesses: Actually outweigh the strengths a bit. Socially awkward & shy still. Relationships? Almost non-existant. Still need to keep a routine (which can help at work, unless someone disrupts it). Some visual-spatial issues ( I hate those security things at Registration!) & executive functioning.
At least melt-downs are rare now.

Sincerely,
Matthew

I'm horrible at math and science.

When I was in school, I always got terrible grades in math because I usually didn't understand it, and I'd still get the answers wrong even when I thought I understood it.

I enjoy watching The Big Bang Theory for the characters but I don't understand most of what they're talking about. Also, I have tried to research quantum physics for my own enjoyment (because of concepts like the multiple universes theory and whether you become a new person when you teleport) but it's very hard for me to grasp. Even basic stuff like Schrodinger's Cat doesn't make any sense to me.

Um, I know all of my weaknesses and don't know any strengths.

I go off on tangents too easily. I'm easily distracted by my interests, and by aspects of them that others don't value. For instance I'm extremely interested in needlework (knitting especially right now), but I can get lost in the details of a project, working to get it perfect, or in learning about the process or just taking in the beauty of yarn, fabric, color, texture. Rather than just getting a lot of knitting done - which is my goal, to finish specific projects. If I were an NT who loved to knit, it strikes me that I would get a lot more done.

That's just one example of an interest. Cooking is the same. When I was young I became interested in cooking only the specific foods that fascinated me. I'm still that way, I hate being depended on for meals. I cook when I want to cook, and what I want to cook.

When I was writing fiction I would get too involved in backstory or world building, or research, or I'd write too much that wasn't necessary.

I hope I'm being clear. It's that my intense interest in things tends to be quirky and off-center, and can distract me from the more mainstream ways in which one would approach those interests, and makes me less productive with them.

I also lose interest for a while and can think I'll never go back to that interest again, and if I've invested a lot of time, energy or money in it, it can be very discouraging.

I'm also a slow reader and it takes me a while to catch on to concepts at times, especially anything to do with math or mechanics. I was a gifted student, but I had trouble keeping up with course work, because of the reading that had to be done. Even now, reading at my own speed in my own interests - I can just slog along sometimes. I love to read, mind you, I'm just slow at it.