For those that believe Autism is good, what are your reasons

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Yeah. There's a reason I don't tell people about my autism. To me it's not their business, it's mine. I'll share it if and when that seems relevant and like a good idea.



Oh cool, I'll check that out. Thanks!

Good for you. Doing that should help you.

Personally, I can only see the negatives aspects of the condition. I have no creative talents; I am devoid of all emotion; I cannot relate to anything - real or artificial - I have a low IQ; my memory is shocking; 99.9999% of the time I have zero interests and thus my life feels - and probably is - pointless. Not everyone who is autistic is a Temple Grandin or a Steve Jobs. People seem to forget that.

Autism is ok if you have at least one of the following, and great if you have all of the following:-

-You are intelligent and able to focus on special interests for hours

-You are entitled disability benefits and don't have to work

-You have more Aspies in your family so you're not the only one

-You don't have self-awareness and other people's thoughts and feelings don't affect you


Otherwise, when you're like me; desires friends, fascinated by NTs, get highly anxious about work but still have to work because you're too high-functioning to be awarded disability money, too self-conscious, worry about social approval, and feel different from most other Aspies but yet you're not quite NT. That's when Asperger's sucks rats balls.

You are comfortable in your own company and don't need the attention of others.

I don't know that I see my autism as good, per se. After all, all the things I find "good," I might not feel were good if I weren't autistic - if that makes sense.

I think of it as more of a neutral thing.

I have the first one, mostly. I can't focus on special interests so much as I can't quit thinking. Some of the last one, but less now than ever.

I wouldn't change. Sure it stinks, but I like the way it stinks. For me it is about logic, I don't think I've ever seen a comment here that was illogical unless it was a clear meltdown. Even then, it's mostly just logically obsessing over something that one would otherwise let go of, or dealing with some sensory issue that really makes sense once you apply a little logical empathy. It's why we tend to do better in technical roles, because technical communication is exact - it's literal.

I wish I had gotten better care in school, I wish I had a better understanding of how to be this way, I wish there was more material on normal behavior (pretty typical to not establish any sort of norm don't you think?), but I don't wish I was fundamentally different. It's not like normals don't have problems, because they do, they have a lot of problems. I think it's a lot like being jealous of someone, well you really don't know what they have or don't have. They might have a nice car and a nice family, but it could really just look like that and you might actually not trade things at all, you just don't know the whole picture, so you think in terms of what you've seen and what you want rather than what you actually have or what they actually have.

I say, keep your chin up and smile, until you see some social evidence that you should do otherwise, then play it out until it's time to keep your chin up again.