It’s time to focus on some of the positive things about being autistic. Before I mention them, I’d like to say I’m not making this information up. Neurotypical professionals have observed:
Autistics are innovative. That’s because we have our own way of living and observing things. We are generally very honest and make sane, realistic observations of what we experience. Some of us are exceptionally quick to notice what the long-term pattern of something will be when a particular course of action is followed. Autistics are well-known for having high levels of logic. It’s what makes us able to be great mathematicians, engineers, and scientists (especially in the field of physics).
It is highly difficult to hide anything from us. We do detect emotions of other people. We easily discern discrepancies, especially hypocrisy. We can see right through people, provided that others haven’t received an opportunity to take advantage of a weakness (such as a low self-esteem).
There actually are as many positive things about being on the autism spectrum as there are not being on it. It’s impossible and ridiculous to always be comparing the two against one another, but it is possible and a good thing to occasionally bring to attention those things that are wonderful about neuro-A-typical thinkers. It’s only logical that neurotypicals will at times fail to realize that, to them, autistics may seem illogical. That’s to be expected given that people cannot borrow some things which others have (and an alternative way of cognitively processing information is one of those things).
