New Here-Anything good about being an Aspie?

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.........but I never said that all aspies are good at math and science, and why was my poll biased?

You left out some options in the so-so area, which is a structural bias, as this causes people to vote in categories that do not properly apply to them. Confirmation bias doesn't mean that you believe all aspies are that way, it just means you are going to notice more of the ones that are that way than the ones who aren't. It happens to anyone who has ever heard of any stereotype.

Strange, I find the problems to be of similar nature.

but I had a 'I kinda fail', a 'I'm okay' (basically the same as 'so-so') and a 'I'm quite good' option.

I quote my - ironically NT - best friend: "Dude, normal people suck!"



Neatness. I do something similar in that I try to take something and relate it to something else to make appropriate analogies, similies, and/or metaphors. Some people get the references, others don't - but hey...what can ya do?



Work on your timing - wait until he has just taken a big swig from a beverage cup.



You go!

Being Aspie rocks.

Yes, NTs won't be your best friends BUT if someone don't like you for who you are they wouldn't have been a real friend anyway!

Logical thinking has a lot of potential, helps in computer programming (Bill Gates probably has AS, Bram Cohen, creator of BitTorrent, has said himself that he does) and many other things such as maths and car mechanics (sounds odd I know but the way all the motors and stuff work is very logical).

Aspie creativity is also very cool, along with a visual way of thinking.

And just the uniqueness of our thinking is amazing

Good things about being an aspie:

Logical thinking

Unlikely to care about peer pressure

Creativity/different way of thinking

Good long term memory

And my personal favorite...

Special interests. They make me so happy even a lot of times in bad situations that I really cannot understand why some people seem to think obsessions are bad things. I have yet to see why something that gives me so much happiness and helps me cope with everything is supposed to be bad. The happiness I get from these interests is my favorite part about AS.

I think special interests are GREAT. In fact, when I was going for my IT degree, I found my special interests (games) actually was an advantage! During each of my classes - especially programming and systems analysis, it gave me an opportunity to put a "bend" on that information as it would be relevant to game design - which is what I really want to do.

Yeah, I know. It took me till my 30's to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up.

+1

I get to play Mr. Spock and my ears are not even pointy.

God made computers for His Aspie servants.

ruveyn

I have to admit that the special interest capability is without a doubt on top of the list and I personally can't imagine how anybody can live without this facet of their life. If I could give that gift to normal people it would be wonderful.

It would be cool to have pointy ears.

My interests. Of course. But it's rather hard to place myself outside of that. I mean, I have an overwhelming love for my interests, but I don't know whether my love would be any less if Asperger's had nothing to do with it. I just seem to have come to my interests in a different way. Other people not on the spectrum may be just as interested as I am, but they are not COMPULSED to follow that interest in the way that I sometimes can be.

This would be a useful trait, had I pursued a career in my interests when I had the opportunity. But I didn't. Too self-unaware at the time.

Most of the rest of Asperger's is something I could do without. I don't really share the idea that it is simply a "difference" and that there is nothing wrong with it. It complicates social interaction. And social interaction, for all of its travesty, heartbreak, and trivial dramatic banalities, is how our species has worked together to grow and evolve. I think that Asperger's may be a necessary fluke within the human construct... these are some of the people who introduce ideas outside the norm, and provide a novel perspective which can help society to advance. But humans are social animals. And having Asperger's makes life harder in this regard.

I think you can categorize it as something of a mixed blessing.

To be hoest, the bad outweighs the good most days, but I can't even comprehend what normal life would be like, and I am still perfectly fine, although sometimes distraught, about having AS... It is exactly what it claimns to be, a pervasive developemental disorder.