Are aspies more intellectual than NTs?

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That's what I was thinking: logical.

Based on what I've observed here, I don't think Aspies are more logical than NTs. But I think those with AS probably use a lot more logic and conscious thought in social interactions, vs. acting on instinct or intuition.

Yes I'd say my daughter is far more logical and objective than my wife or I. I find both traits very good.

Intellectuals on the hand can be w*kers.

Yes and no as most aspies I know (including me) are amazingly good at certain subjects compared to most people, yet some things we are completely incapable of doing properly

I myself find that when I really get interested in something I can can really good at it and surpass multiple people in my abilities in that topic however I can not learn to do something I don't want to do very well

I have several NT friends (all PhDs) and they are as intellectual as anyone you'll ever know.
Many Aspies are not intellectual. Think of all the Aspies with IQs of 105-120, very few of them would be 'intellectuals' , they are just above average ppl.

By definition aspies are more intellectual but this is only because aspies are defined as having average or above average IQ.
The NT population consists of a mix of all IQ's and so on average is less intellectual. But this fact is merely because the aspie population sample is biased due to the defining characteristics of aspergers i.e. it eliminates people with low IQ's. This tells us nothing particularly interesting.

I think that we completely appear that way. I don't think it's true though.

I was the intellectual, studious type. I am trying to develop my social and emotional life now.

It does seem like Aspies in general tend to be more intellectual but that's not the case with all of us. I'm defiantly NOT intellectual. I really s#cked in skewl.

There were two episodes of Sheldon that portrayed the differences in intelligence. Sheldon has a twin sister Missy, who is portrayed as being able to read people in ways Sheldon can't even comprehend. The family signed up for the intelligence testing of twins.

Absolutely!

Unlike all my NT friends I never move my lips...while reading my comic books!

I vote yes, but I say that this is only usually true.

I don't talk about Autism-Asperger's-Neurological Difference, because when we do that we are only marginalizing ourselves, and encouraging child abuse.

I talk about Shamanic Experience, and the key is mystical tendencies. And in our society, as opposed to an actual primitive society, mystical tendencies often manifest in being bookish, interested in arcane things, and things like art, music, mathematics, philosophy, science, and technology.

I see Autism-Asperger's as a lived experience, mostly of one of being abused and persecuted. So often such a person will not have gotten much of a chance of developing their abilities.

Richard

I could care less whether or not one is more intellectual than the other.

There are types of intellectuals I do fancy becoming or do want to follow them, and then there are types I seriously dislike the most that I would rather be an 'ignoramus' in their judgmental eyes.
While some of the latter may not be intellectuals at all, there exists judgmental intellectuals which kinda turns me off. I'm aware of the difference.


I could be if I feel like it.
So either I'm or not, just not either all the time.
I do think and/or feel, and it seems as I age, I'm getting inclined to either. I've yet to do well at the same time.


My younger self is more inclined to intellectual stuffs than the me now.
Because during those times, my focus was to mainly absorb knowledge across everything I've read about and saw, then think about it on hours end.
My focus now is getting things done in real life, in real time, whether or not I have the time to think or not.

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