What's your favorite part of being an aspie/autie?

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I'm just really curious to see what aspies/auties enjoy most about their condition. My favorite thing about being an aspie is that I seem to be more intelligent than my NT peers, and better at art than any NT person, I'm 16, and I can paint/draw like a more experienced adult. (many NTs of my age group are amazed and wonder how I pull it off.) That's my favorite thing about being an aspie. What is your favorite aspect of being an aspie/autie?

The babes...

Seeing the world diffrent from others.

Knowing that I am autistic.

The joy of immersion of whatever you happen to be obsessed with at any time, how it can form new worlds and allow me to create things others don't see.

Being Tuttle.

What my friend calls my ninja reflexes. Basically, I don't seem to have a panic reaction, so when everyone else is freaking out about something, I just act. Comes in handy.


That, and water. The sheer joy I get from mountain springs, fountains, and other running water is just great. It's just kind of an on switch for happy.

Nothing.
I would give and arm and a leg to be be NT.

And anyone who feels academically intellegent "compared to NTs", remember that there are always going to be Neurotypical professors out there who are probably even more intellegent.

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Er, okay? What's the point you're trying to make?

.. or if you're a Neurotypical professor, then it would be something like this...


Point being that I'm fed up of people trying to delude themselves into believing that being on the spectrum somehow gives them super powers; and pro-aspies who think that being on the spectrum means that they are more academically capable than NTs ; that argument works only because they choose to compare themselves with only the less academic portion of the NT population, then label those people as representative of the NT wider population.

Well to be honest I think my advanced memory skills originate from the same neurodiversity that my AS came from.

I have a special relationship with words. And music. And myself. As far as I know, I've had a successful life, how does one determine any of it anyway? Am I happy? How would I know? It's like Wittgenstein's observation about the color red; how sure can anyone be that the 'red' they see matches anyone else's view of 'red'? Alone is home, problems are my furniture, I'm the interior decorator. As if I had a choice.

Aint that the truth.

My ability to hyperfocus is the best part of being an aspie, for me

Seeing what other people don't see, being free-thinking enough to question popular social assumptions and mantras.

I'm not saying it never gets me into trouble..........people fear loose cannons, and of course with my Aspie bluntness I can be infuriatingly - er - blunt with it.

Nothing. All the things I am good at are what NTs can be good at too, and all the things that are due to my AS are shameful.