One advantage I’ve always had that seems not common in humans is that I’ve always been able to completely ignore when someone tells me that I am not good at something.

It seems to really diminish most people. However, I seem constitutionally incapable of caring what anyone thinks about my prowess one way or another if it’s something I either enjoy doing or merely want to do.

I think that is partly – likely mostly – personality, but that I also know that I tend to be worse than anyone else by far when I first attempt to do something, but learn much faster and then in the end usually without that much effort end up doing pretty well.

Not having normal responses to many things in the areas I care about has only been a benefit to me so far.