What talents/good qualities even come with this disorder? (kinda a rant)

Honestly not many...

Most of the people that talk about the amazing qualities of asd are the tech industry programmer types... if you don’t have that it’s a lot tougher.

I mean some of us do have a ridiculous amount of focus... but that’s a double edged sword with rumination of negative events on the other side.

Extreme emotional empathy? But often that allows you to get manipulated.

I find that we can survive in really hard situations longer than others... whether it’s lack of awareness, apathy, or inability to find a way out... we can persist through tough situations as long as it doesn’t require a high level of executive functioning.

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