Do you consider your autism a disability?

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First, I speak for myself.

And, no. Autism is still a disability.
Comorbidities and damn them.
I don't deny this exists entangled with autism, but which do you think is more disabling than just autism itself?

Science had yet to solve this entanglement completely.

Compensation in context of overpowering or mitigating one's handicap or deficits through other means.

This is not the same boat as savantism or autistics' novelty of special interests with social models.
But more on the lines of adaptation and equipping in order to function.

[color=#0077aa] REally depends on the comorbid. like social anxiety autism is defnitiely wores. Schizophrenia probably schizophrenia.

It's a disability as far as you mentally don't get other people or have comorbids like a bad body control or sensory issues or anxieties that are out of control. Most people are able to improve a bit at most of this even that anybody has very own limits of course. Never give up yourself! Negativity is an issue of your own way of thinking only that you have to fight on your own!

I have always considered autism a *social* disability.

Do you find you are more rational/intellectual than the average NT?
I am.

I don't consider myself to be disabled by my condition.

But I don't drive, flunked out of college, and have lost every job I've tried. My rooms are often a mess despite legit efforts to clean, and my plans are woefully disorganized despite a bunch of lists and resolutions.

Autism is nearly always a disability , also depends where you live as to how one feels about that.

Living in US / Europe with access to a computer, got a routine & family waiting on you all day with little worry about the basics of life can be pretty manageable to some, who want to claim autism is just a difference.

Living in Calcutta competing against deformed and blind street beggars for food money because your family have abandoned you brain differences not so cool anymore.

I mainly experience disabling aspects of my autistic traits as "spoons" - getting drained by activities not even noticed by NTs, especially when there is some social or sensory aspect about them (groceries!)
On the other hand, I like my mind. Hyperfocus, intellectual precision and attention to detail are valid parts of me, very useful when doing science. Resistance to herd mentality was a pain at school but in adult life, it gives me a lot of respect for independent thinking.

Yes.

Regardless of whether or not some benefit has been conferred to me via special interests or "seeing things differently", I consider it to be a disability. Even my "special interests" are a disability considering that others have judged me negatively for them and thought of me as a broken record.

A person who was in the same school house but a year above me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Helm

A person in same year,same birthdate, but different school house .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tyrie

Then there's me as described in my 1st comment .

I rather have no problems with speaking understandably. But I am poorer in spoken language than in written, especially when I use a foreign language like English (in it there are many sounds that are absent in my mother tongue).

I rather can't work occupationally in normal way (and it seems that it will not change later in my life). I have never driven a car. I think that I appear partial help with independent living and it also looks that I will not live on my own in my future life. I have never had a close friend and, more importantly, a girlfriend (candidate for my wife) and it appears that I will be unable to marriage to my death. This may be the most painful for my nature because it craves having romantic relationship and intimate physical contact with own spouse (although my "superego" wants lifelong celibacy). I suppose that I am even more unable to be a priest or monk.

I had easier in schools than most peers because of being academically talented, having high IQ (at least verbal), good verbatim memory, lack of dyscalculia and dysgraphia. Despite it I suppose that in USA or Canada I would have been diagnosed with NVLD instead of PDD or ASD.

During my time on the job I considered my quirkiness (late in life diagnosis) an asset. Being retired and with a full diagnosis, this quirkiness of OCD and Asperger's is more of an annoyance.

Once I got my sensitivities to (mostly) calm down, and I figured out a few social tools to keep me from being bullied at work, it became less of a "disability" and more like just being left handed in a right handed world.

Join the club.
I repeat myself all the time.
I have come to the conclusion it is a form of mental "Stimming".

Idk for me It's just I forget that i already told them that and I tell everything to everyone.

Personally, I think being excessively social and emotional is a disability, but those people are the majority and got to write the diagnostic manual...