Females with AS - What is your area of strength?

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My strengths:

I have a unique writing style.

I've always been good at reading, spelling, etc...

I can memorize things really well.

I love little kids and animals - anything "cute."

I'm really imaginative.

I can hear things that other people don't notice.

I can draw things from memory - and really well, too.

People tell me I'm really nice and polite, and a sweet person.

I have lots of empathy; I just have difficulty knowing when and how to express it.

I'm persistent.

I notice small details that lots of other people do not.

I can identify "voices" pretty well...one time, my dad and I were in a bookstore, and I was sitting next to him reading (I was about 4 or 5) and Ella Fitzgerald was playing on the speakers in the store. My dad leaned over and asked me, "LtlPinkCoupe, who's that singing?" I replied without hesitation, "Ella Fitzgerald," barely looking up from the Franklin book I was reading. Also, if you were to join me in watching old/classic cartoons, you would probably be subjected to my interrupting with exclamations of "That's June Foray!" "That's Hans Conreid!" "That's Nancy Cartwright!" "That's Thurl Ravenscroft/Sterling Holloway/Charlie Adler/Mel Blanc/Casey Kasem....." etc.

s t r e n g t h s -
innate visual l spacial design abilities
perfect pitch, apparently

w e a k n e s s e s -
little to no recognition of when the following occur/ are being used:
figure of speech
rhetorical questions
sarcasm
jokes/joking
exaggeration
et al

Last edited by delaSHANE on 01 Nov 2013, 12:45 am, edited 1 time in total.

I should've made my list shorter. You described every single thing I wanted to say.

Strengths:
Writing/reading
TV/movie/music from the 1950s-1970s trivia
Looking up answers to questions

Weaknesses:
Any kid of Math basically
Science
Handwriting (I write really really bad, and not so neat either)
Paying attention to certain things
Doing things I don't want to do

Strength:

1. Problem Solving - seriously I'm extremely resourceful.
2. Visual spatial abilities
3. Pattern matching -according to some mine is almost savant level
4. Great fine motor skills - I can draw, embroider, sculpt and do many repairs
5. Logic and critical thinking

Weakness:

1. Horrible gross motor skills and balance, this hurts the most because I can't drive a car
2. Anxious and tense about people and social stuff
3. Various sensory sensitivities
4. Unbalanced language skills, good reading and writing and horrible listening and understanding other people's speech.

It seems all my strength are typically male.

Strengths:
Reading, writing, picking up language and dialects, music playing and writing, painting/drawing, and acting, it seems.
Analyzing and memorizing
Meticulous: Doing repetitive work accurately
Good fine motor skill, handy
Visual, logical and see parts coming together and take shape by themselves when I construct things (do-it-yourself)
Very loyal (good dog)

Weaknesses:
Bad handwriting, bad at math.
Often literal and not a brilliant communicator, it seems
Hopeless in sports, and not interested either
A little inflexible
Non multitasker
Slow worker and tends to mess up when I am under time pressure
Often inattentive in spite of trying to concentrate.
Oversensitive to noise.

My #1 Strength - Cutting through BS.
My #1 Weakness - Cutting through BS.

My strengths are:

My honesty (this can be a weakness as well as it can inadvertently offend people but usually people compliment me on it).
My determination and perseverance.
How much I care for other people (I work professionally as a care worker but also care for people a lot outside work as well).
My writing skills.
I often get complimented for being eccentric.

My weaknesses are:

I am a very literal person which leads to a lot of communication mistakes.
I think in very polar terms ("black and white thinking") which again leads to a lot of communication mistakes.
I struggle to control my emotions and anxieties which leads to a lot of self injurous behaviours such as skin picking and biting.
My handwriting is awful and both my gross and fine motor skills are impaired meaning I am unable to learn to drive and struggle to cook.
I struggle with Maths.
I struggle with depressive and self loathing thoughts related to my low self esteem.

Strengths:
-Art
-Music
-Mythology

I am an artist I draw and paint regularly even if the stuff isn't magnificent, but I have good imagination and im getting better. I have a large collection of data in terms of mythology of different cultures and I can memorize tunes easily. I cannot play instruments but I have an excellent soprano voice.

Weaknesses
-Coherent verbal exchanges
-Algebra
-memorization of directions (although i am good with spatial ideas of what is next to what and what comes next, but a route to get to a destination never sticks)
-terrible hand writing


Overall my greatest weaknesses come from a sheer lack of communication skills to a large degree. I have little idea of verbal and non verbal cues to know when its my turn to talk, when I have talked too much or actually not talked out loud at all etc. I think I have dyscalcula, not diagnosed yet but i got a very strong idea I do.

I do a lot of skin picking and nail biting, i did not know this was considered a self injurious behavior, though I have made myself bleed often picking at my skin and got lil bitty sores all over my arms because of it.

I do skin-picking and nail biting all the time, too - plus I used to do a lot of other self-injurious behaviors when I was a teenager, too.

My weaknesses:

- executive functioning
- loses/misplaces items, forgets things that are important
- being monotrack and having difficulty switching actvities at times
- trouble taking social initiative due to shyness and fear of rejection
- too sensitive, easily hurt, does not take criticism well
- low self-esteem (though this has improved)

My strengths:

- language arts (same as the OP!)
- abstract & extremely creative thinking
- lots of insight into self
- analytical, questions commonalities in society, thinks outside the box
- fairly good academically (mostly As in university)
- caring and emphathetic towards most people

My strengths are also in language and reading. My list of weaknesses is far too long to type out here.

Strengths are reading,
writing (less so if I don't practice),
cooking,
finding anomalies, patterns,
figure drawing,
sketching,
painting,
Understanding,
and whatever it is called to have continued hanging in there (here) despite various sadnesses and troubles over the years. Also I used to be good at music.

Weaknesses - anything to do with talking,
crowded places ,
noise,
paperwork,
and cities.

I do bite my nails too but the biting I was referring to in the post is when I bite my knuckles or hands. This is usually during times of high anxiety and is usually a warning that a panic attack is imminent.

These behaviours are classed as self injurous although I don't believe that the intent is the same as people who aren't on the spectrum and self harm. A lot of self injurous behaviours that people with autism display are the result of over stimulation and lack of ability to filter sensory information and often involuntary or semi voluntarily (I have met someone with Aspergers who finds self inflicted bite marks on her arms and can't remember making them) whereas, with self harm in the general population, it's more of a self loathing thing or as a release to pent up emotions. However, it all gets thrown together as self injurous regardless of the reasons behind it.

strengths: down to earth, don't take any BS, extreamly kind and loyal to the friends I have ( I'd do anything for my social aspie family)