Why are the parents of autistic people so overprotective?

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I'm American and I have likewise never encountered such a stereotype. BTW I don't think most male nurses in the US are gay although it's possible gay men are represented in that profession at a higher percentage than the general population (assuming anyone even knows what that is )

Well I have autism, and you expected I'd do that?....

There is no hidden meaning to be "deduced."

the cerebral hemispheres supposedly can overcome certain neurological perceptual deficits associated with autism, by developing different synaptic pathways and adaptions to perform cognitive tasks in a unorthodox way. similar to the remapping that occurs after blunt trauma injury or stroke. so yes... I do expect you do that.

Western civilzation was built on and around a cultural edifice that is nothing but hidden meanings waiting to be "deduced."

It is a silly assumption, sure there probably are gay male nurses and probably lots of straight male nurses. I mean even though lots of people are smarter then that some people are still stuck on thinking nurse is a womans job. So they think only women and gay guys can be nurses even though it's nonsense.

I mean it seems like a pretty difficult and brutal job to me not particularly masculine or feminine, I would not want to do it.

It seems a bit presumptuous to assume everyone with autism here has successfully compensated for all their deficits, I'd think.

Autism is a very complex, even the scientists studying it admit so. Its traits vary in severity on a case by case basis. If you can't read body language for e.g., who's saying that you can't learn. learn so effectively that you can mimic a nt's natural ability, or maybe even surpass it. Anything's possible. Either that or maybe I was just misdiagnosed. In my personal case. Sometimes I suspect so.

Very complex and very different from person to person.
I wasn't unaware of that a hot oven would burn me. I was interested in what it would feel like to get that burn.
I was always the curious one, sticking needles into my hands to see what happened and various other oddities.
Or the calculated risk kind of person, no this won't be dangerous because statistcally nothing bad will happen.
Or just not caring. If I die, so be it.

/Mats

Woah dude, sounds like you have a rare gene mutation related to the production of the enzyme anandamide.

For the record, I didn't touch the oven, I put my hand on the hot stove once, but that was not because I wanted to get burnt, just 4 years old not knowing better.
But I did put needles in my hand and I once wondered about a rasp my father was using and touched it, which gave me a pretty big wound.
Oh, and I ate lead. Not a lot, but still. I ate some other weird stuff too, but no vegetables.

Aanyways, the point is that there are reasons for parents to care a bit more for an autistic child than they would need to do with a neurotypical child.

/Mats

I wonder if we autistic people have a better chance of making irrational, unwise decisions, often against the law just to have a point! Like that Aspie from my country that starting to drive illegally and found that he is better driver than neurotypical people without this stupid two-wheeler driving course
Until he got caught and got problems with coops

I think I fit into that description, but I don't think it can be applied to the general population of autists.
I have as I've said almost no fears. And I also have a tendency to do the oposite of what people expects from me, and as you said breaking the law to prove a point. (I usually follow the laws by the way.)

/Mats