Autistic hobbies that are actually useful

[Skitarii]

I had a weird obsession with rust removal when I was a kid and now I turn a good buck restoring shit for lazy boomer women

 

[Thumb Butler]

Knitting, for obvious reasons.

 

[Oughtism]

I've heard that drawing and combining beloved children's characters from video games into OC can make you pretty famous, rich, and even make you become a woman.

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

Definitely anything involving a power washer. Also carpet cleaning.

 

[Product Placement]

Only useful if you have any skill at them

Anything DYI related
Programming
Cooking
Gardening
Painting

 

[Ed Special]

Auto detailing comes to mind

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

Aviation and amateur radio are both niche skill sets that attract People of Spectrum.

 

[BigDongWarrior]

Aviation and amateur radio are both niche skill sets that attract People of Spectrum.

Aviation is niche????????? How exactly?

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

Aviation is niche????????? How exactly?

Aviation as a hobby and a fixture is common. However, the SKILL SET itself is quite niche. Not everyone who partakes does it well, and it takes a very special kind of autism to truly master.

 

[Red Hood]

Sleuthing is pretty autistic but has many uses

 

[Idiotron]

Anything creative where you can make something out of nothing.
If you can make it, you can sell it, you just need to find a buyer.

 

[Latvophile]

I had a weird obsession with rust removal when I was a kid

You'd hate the TVR Cerbera due to the rust issues on the bottom then XD

What about music production and mixing? It takes someone to learn and play an instrument/use a MIDI-compatible keyboard or something perhaps, but when it comes to mastering the sound that is actually output, doesn't that take another set of skills entirely? One that could certainly be enhanced by autism? (I mean, just look at how goddamn crazy some of the C64-era composers were. Jesus fucking Christ.)

Also, another example, think about how many Mega Drive games using GEMS sounded like arse because they used the default sound patches which sound like an OPL2 being put in a microwave oven (despite the OPN2 in the MD being superior), yet you had games like Kid Chameleon, The Ooze, Comix Zone (shoutout to my old account @Sketch Turner), Vectorman, Sonic Spinball and Earthworm Jim that actually bothered to create their own instrument patches and use the sound driver properly, and sounded really good as a result

 

[Haint]

Gardening. I can grow my own drugs and food. I can sperg out about details about obscure plants that no one else cares about. I get paid for sperging about plants and flowers.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Ham radio seems very autistic but would be useful in the Apocalypse.

Spreadsheets. This is kind of just shitty entry level programming, but if you are creative and familiar with Excel you can whip up wonderful machines to help you and solve problems that would be way too long by hand. It’s the functions, not the data entry, that makes it valuable.

I once built an entire random map generator (like for a game) in Excel, sans the actual graphics or game. Later I learned how to do it in C++.

 

[McKim's Rolled Roof]

Welding
Cooking

Fly-Tying for fly fishing. That's my most autistic skill.

 

[Shitted Scaredless]

How do you make your autism focus on something useful.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Knots.

your gf will love it

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

How do you make your autism focus on something useful.

You don't. Either you're an Elon Musk, or a Chris-Chan. 99% of the time, you're probably going to be the latter
That's just how autism works

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Funny enough, reading old math/comp sci/physics/computer programming/engineering reference books actually keep my brain busy. Plus, I’m willing to argue that it helps me think in ways that it could help lead me into more constructive decision making.

 

[Damien Thorne]

Being a food snob and a cook.

No, I am not talking about microwaving frozen tendies.