Yeah I’ve been getting shit my entire life for the fact that things like making a phone call or responding to a text message are insurmountable tasks for me, but I can tell you exactly what’s wrong with your car’s engine just by listening to it for a minute or two…

Nah, I suck at everything.

Oh yeah, diagnosing and fixing electronics is really easy (and fun) for me, and I do it as a day job. I lag behind "easy" adult tasks all the time though, like making appointments, following them, etc. And/or I do them with great anxiety. I don't feel apt to be an adult in our society...

In university, I was offered a significant amount of assistance with all the things that I'd been helping others with.
They were completely unable to assist in any way with any of the tasks I couldn't do.

Absolutely. The reaction is often that they thought I was unwilling and too lazy to do the task right.

It takes me forever to write just a simple email, but if I have a task related to one of my special interests (plants and tech) I can easily and quickly get it done. There are also certain tasks that are seemingly boring to others that are engaging to me (usually it's stuff that's repetitive).

The guy with autism i know pretty well, cant figure out how to do anything

Solving mathematical problems: Easy

Speaking coherent sentences: Impossible

My mother said my father couldn't tie his shoes properly. He was literally a rocket scientist. As in, the company he worked for designed things that went to space on rockets (to be fair: not the propulsion systems themselves, i.e. not the rocket itself) and he was a scientist.

As for me, I'm pretty much a wizard with computers, but not so great at social interactions. I had to learn a new computer system last year (one that isn't publicly available, it's not really an OS per se, more of a specialised interconnected system with its own language) and I do stuff with it that people who have been using for years told me they never thought was possible. Because I RTFM and I try shit.

Talking to people... if we start out on the same page I'm good, but if the tone/mood shifts, I either falter and people lose interest in me or take offence to something I said, or I catch on and get out before that happens. I think now my coworkers realise that about me and don't really push me into awkward social situations for the most part, and just kinda let me work my magic. I'm just glad they found something I'm good at.

I’m pretty damn good at understanding the ways in which computers work in very intricate ways, both in the physical hardware as well as understanding the software. I could program better than almost everyone in my pretty large software development class (this was months ago tho, I graduated from high school recently), with 500 or so lines of python for a line-by-line CSV reader complete with text commands, theming options, window decoration settings, an almost perfect UX for the use case, etc. (I did however have issues with allowing CSVs to interact with the program after compiling it with an install script file.)

What I am absolutely hopeless in however, is tying my shoes, understanding when I’m hungry/thirsty/tired/etc, and I struggle when speaking unless I spend hours of my day scripting theoretical scenarios, which also includes in text form. I was also terrible in English and mathematics in every year of school, not due to “not wanting to learn” but it was just since half the time they were excruciatingly slow and boring, and the other half of the time they were so difficult to understand since it was also going too fast and I was under excessive pressure.

Well, if i had any interest in answering phones, I wouldn't have dismantle them in the first place. Or, for younger folks, the risk of losing contact for installing a custom OS in your phone is not that big.

Yeah pretty much.