Does autism effect motivation and discipline?

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I lack those two things. Is it autism related?

It could affect it it depends on what you are doing. If you are doing something you enjoy there tends to be lots of motivation. If it's something you don't really like or know about you tend no have little or no motivation.

For discipline I think it would depend on who is telling you and what it is. Usually if it's someone you respect or love you listen. if it's a stranger or someone you hate usually you would ignore them.

So it just depends on the situations so ya i guess autism influences those.

Everyone lacks motivation and discipline until they're inspired by something. Physical fitness teaches discipline, and push ups can be easily done in your home.

There is self-discipline, and then there's discipline inflicted by others. I think that autism actually makes _self_discipline better, but it has to be toward something that _you_ want, like your Special Interest. I suppose the trick is to convince yourself that you want to bring home straight As on your grade card, or whatever.

Motivation, similar. Think about what you want, and what steps are necessary to _get_ what you want.

You're not alone, I lack both of these as well. While I'm not sure if they are linked but I struggle to motivate myself to do even the slightest tasks that hold some sort of responsibility to them. I feel like it takes more effort from me to do things than most people.

It depends. I'm autistic, but I know if I want a great paying job, I just know have to have what it takes to get what you want. I wouldn't say they "lack it". I have ADHD, so you would have to tell me how to do something new 100 times before I get it as I am used to doing what I already know.

I disagree. I swam competatively and practiced for 2 hours/5000 yards a day growing up. I don't really care if I ever do "physical fitness" again. Just as in all things your mileage may vary.

Read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_dysfunction

Over the years there have been times when I've been able to motivate myself to do things I didn't want to or had no interest in... and there have been other times when i haven't even been able to motivate myself to do things i really want to do. I can't imagine that Asperger's itself just waxes and wanes over the years like that.
I suspect that it may, in my case at least, be that common ASD co-morbid: undiagnosed depression.