Best part of being an Aspie?

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For me, it's having nothing expected of me. Don't have to deal with idiots and jerks out in the work force, don't have to work some job I hate, and no one questions you for it. As soon as you say "I'm autistic" people back off.

I can't think of a worse existence than to work 40 hours or more for a boss that hates you and co-workers that just talk about each other behind their backs and doing some boring task 8 hours a day. High school was bad enough.

I also like my out of the box thinking. So many NTs I know (not all, but a lot) got married at a young age to some less-than-ideal woman and bought an apartment or house in the same boring miserable town they grew up in. To me that isn't living. Sure it's being active. But it isn't living.

1) The ability to become so intensely focused on what you are doing.

2) The lack of any concern with all those insignificant and superficial things, rules, social role assignments and values that preoccupy NTs to such a huge extent.

3) The joy of simply being myself without concern for anybody else's expectations.

4) And probably a few more too that do not mmediately come to mind.

Most autistics and aspies I've encountered in real life either don't work or have a savant/specialist job, usually in computers or machines.

Being honest with myself. This is a simple concept that has far reaching effects, such as not needing to fit in to any group, being honest with others, seeing things clearly, etc.

I thought the thread was pretty obvious:

what is the best thing (for you) that is related to your aspergers

I'm guessing hangliding has nothing to do with AS

For me, it's becoming intensely emotionally involved with my special interests, which also doubles as a bad thing sometimes.

Other than the work thing, it would be the out of the box thinking. I know plenty of NTs who think out of the box...but they tend to be introverted types or at least "not socially cool" types.

It actually opens a lot of doors for me. I use my autism as a punch line, and I've made a lot of people laugh. People like me now, which is quite nice.

I like working. It is hard to try to function without NTs knowing I am different. It is difficult and tiring, but to me that is the point. To show that I can play their games in their world. I like my independence and even more so the money that they pay me to make things work. At my job they want results, and as it is computer related I can get results better than almost everyone else here. I don't panic in high stress conditions. I don't fold when very higher ranking people are yelling at me, my smile when things are falling apart seems to unnerve them. At the end of the day they just want things to work even if I make them sing the DHCP song before I will fix it.

I feel more conscious than most people I talk to. Because I scrutinize "irrelevant" details about everything.

The ability to be myself, without caring what others think of me.

How is that an AS trait? ^