Survey : What are the Negative aspects of an High functioning Autistic person

Thank you Sparrow for your great description of the life of an AS person. I've lived for more than seventy years in confusion and misunderstanding between social ineptness and great intellectual curiosity. My usual interpretation was a failure to polish and succeed in my intellectual life. My mother said - we thought we were going to have a wonderfully gifted daughter, and you turn out a completely common person. Common indeed! She couldn't stand the uncommonness of me. What you describe is so much what my life has been. Even my children think me weird, but what you say, its so true. Usually I'm afraid to write because I do not want to be attacked - I read so many attacks - but I couldn't resist to say - thank you - you helped me a lot to understand my life.

Thank you Sparrow for your great description of the life of an AS person. I've lived for more than seventy years in confusion and misunderstanding between social ineptness and great intellectual curiosity. My usual interpretation was a failure to polish and succeed in my intellectual life. My mother said - we thought we were going to have a wonderfully gifted daughter, and you turn out a completely common person. Common indeed! She couldn't stand the uncommonness of me. What you describe is so much what my life has been. Even my children think me weird, but what you say, its so true. Usually I'm afraid to write because I do not want to be attacked - I read so many attacks - but I couldn't resist to say - thank you - you helped me a lot to understand my life.