Like I've said a few times before, I have Asperger's too ... I wasn't diagnosed with it until I was 18, but only because we didn't even know about it until then, as I definitely had its symptoms long before ... I mean, how often do you see 4 year old kids fill thousands of pages with this, this or even this (but mostly this) 
Originally posted by Schwa
Autism rules! It makes people mysterious, inspires creativity and out-of-the-box thinking in nearby innocents, creates math and computer geniuses
I skipped grade 1 because I already knew all the basic stuff ... when I was 4, I could already read/write, do basic math (including multiply/divide) and count to at least millions, yet I could barely talk like a 2 year old ... I was always generally known as a math genius at school, although being 1-2 years younger than everyone didn't help my lack of social skills 
Originally posted by Schwa
Furthermore, we have gifts and we get funding from the government because of it, because they can't seem to realize the beneficial part of Autism. Free money? I'll take it!
Yep, I had my good share of that at university I got about $2000 funds per year (or semester? forgot), was given a computer for free for the 3 years I was there, then got a $2000 discount for another (current one), and even a few other services ... although the actual classes went normally 
But the negative side of it (social deficiency) does hurt ... I still managed to get a few friends at school (and got along well with most others), but it was always them who came to me first, as I was usually sitting alone in a corner doing unusual things 
Even now, I still live with my parents, I don't drive, I've never had a girlfriend (won't be anytime soon either), I never go out by myself, I don't even take care of the usual home tasks, I'm still often too shy to talk at all, and I might be stuck that way for a long time ...
Still good I at least got a job, with most of my (yet average) income sitting in bank forever due to low expenses (for the reasons listed above) ... and as pointed out, it could be much worse 
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