Lol my sister(whos autistic) described me as someone who has all the benefits of being autistic without the drawback. Also because i grew up with her i dont really care if someone had it. In school i was both friends with the cool kids and the kids who were always alone. I think we should educate people more about how not to be a dick btw.
Same story here. My brother struggles greatly with autism. Meanwhile I am a very very logical thinker but I've been blessed with enough of a capacity for intuition for it not to take over my personality.
I personally just mastered the act of reaching the "autistic zen", where I not really feel the drawbacks.
Autism life hack: depending on how you learn math, you too can get the "being good at math" autism. Math is a way more interesting subject, except we're learning the subject out of the context where it would be applicable rather than in a more natural form (you can tell a good math book by looking at it having actual use examples, not just the raw functions).
Happened with art too for me, I'm still not a master at it, but once I no longer were taught art fundamentals out of context all while being forced to paint, I got to a relatively good level in a much shorter time I actually learned art in school.
