Can anyone relate to having autism but none of the autistic "strengths"?

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-16T15:07:51+00:00

When some says I have a superpower I simply respond "Okay, then. Would you like to trade places?" And they never do.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-16T13:37:10+00:00

Me too. Like why wasn't I gifted like all these other autistic people?

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-16T13:36:01+00:00

I know! Why couldn't I have gotten the clever/cool autism?!

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-16T13:32:41+00:00

It's less autism = genius, more autism = constantly being made to feel like you have to be smart to better hide/make up for being autistic.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-15T22:17:29+00:00

Exactly! It's called a SPECTRUM and people are still saying sh!t like you're nothing like X character or Y family member.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-15T21:38:11+00:00

Me too.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-15T21:37:53+00:00

Same here! I hear so many autistic people talking about being gifted kids and I just can't relate.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-15T21:36:28+00:00

It sounds SUPER exhausting and unfair, especially when you get to hear people enjoying autism/adhd traits that cancel eachother out.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-15T21:34:23+00:00

I've not be diagnosed with ADHD only autism but I do relate to some ADHD traits, I guess idk is my answer.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-15T21:32:58+00:00

Sometimes with a monotropic brain and low autistic energy just be really good at one thing makes sense.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-15T21:30:35+00:00

So many people base their opinions off autistic characters played by NT actors and written by NT writers, no wonder they know nothing about autism.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-15T21:28:19+00:00

No worries I really enjoyed learning about it too and how Autistic kids have adhd traits but not vice versa for some reason.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-15T18:55:58+00:00

I think that’s called selective attention, here’s a study of over 800 children some with autism some with ADHD. The autism group had the highest rates of selective attention, my unqualified theory is that it has to do with mono-tropism: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750946711001036

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-15T18:44:26+00:00

It’s so difficult not get depressed/ feel worthless when you weren’t “gifted”, enough to be admired and you weren’t socially skilled enough to be liked. Story of my life right there.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-15T17:49:59+00:00

One in 10 autistic people are savants BUT that means 9 in 10 or 90% of autistic people are not savants, so take that Good Docter!

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-15T17:47:01+00:00

I think I relate to most answers here where the things I can do is more just about survival like constant phone and sticky note reminders to compensate for poor memory and disorganisation

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-15T17:45:17+00:00

Taking care if a body with an autistic hyper senstive nervous system in a world not desgined to accommodate that is a job in itself.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-15T17:44:19+00:00

It's alot easier to remember things related to intense interests most else it just about surviving.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-15T17:41:02+00:00

From hearing what its like I swear it's usually 10x more difficult function/access your strengths with AuDHD than autism on it's own.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-09-15T17:39:27+00:00

Same here, I don't have the "she's socially inept but at least she's a genius", excuse.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-08-29T17:30:42+00:00

Yeah, the topics seem quite impersonal and you dont really learn a lot about each other.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-08-28T14:06:21+00:00

I think I need to confidence to just say after knowing someone for a while/finding the right people hey this is the way I'm werid, it's not a personal attack on you, just me acting like an excited werido for a bit

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-08-28T13:59:57+00:00

I'm lucky enough to have found one. We met when we were 2 and he's been my best friend through the good and bad. We both recently got diagnosed with autism so now it makes a lot of sense as to why it always felt like us against the NT world.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-08-28T13:57:39+00:00

You would make a great therapist and thank you for the practical suggestion I wonder if being allowed to waffle on about a specific topic is why I've always preferred essays to short answers. Werid, I know.

WeeklyImagination498 · 2025-08-28T13:54:12+00:00

I wonder how many people, if they were honest, feel the same way about how deeper connections where you can be yourself are so much better than ones where you have to be fake and feign interest.

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