Autistic people hating successful Autistic people?

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My observation may not be accurate, but I've seen way more autistic people hating when another autistic person has gained success. (compared to NTs hating on another NT's success)

Recently, a blind, autistic male has won America's Got Talent.
While there some autistic people who are happy for him, there seems to be even more autistic people who hate him or felt angry about his success.

They said they felt triggered, and claimed that the winner's mother was insensitive.

Some even said things like "She (the winner's mother) is implying that we don't try hard enough."
Or things like "People need to understand that not all autistic people are talented."

I've also seen (on separate occasions) that autistic people trying to tear down other autistic people for gaining some success.

I don't understand why they do that. Why can't we be more supportive towards other autistic people?
Why do people feel the need to tear them down?

I don't have anything against successful autistic people (or successful non-autistic people, for that matter). What I take issue with is being compared to them, like "This autistic person was able to do that thing, why can't you do something similar?" or "If this autistic person could do that thing, then you should be capable of doing this other thing - you just don't want to or are not trying hard enough." Said autistic people are not me, I don't necessarily have skills or talents in the areas that they do which allowed them to succeed. Good for them, but it doesn't make me any more capable of success.

What gets me is when ignorant people use a successful disabled person as a tool to trivialise other disabled persons problems.

While not the only reason it must be noted that jealousy is a part of human nature.

I have not seen personal animus directed at Kodi Lee the autistic America's got talent winner. People have been offended at the perceived inspiration porn NT reaction to him.

I agree that this behavior is prevalent in NTs as well. I've heard that trashing someone else's success is similar to a phenomenon noted in crabs that are caught in a trap, tank, etc. Apparently if one crab tries to have a go at escaping (ie succeed), other crabs apparently pull the escaping crab back down among them to prevent it.

That's what people do but in a different way.

I wish the world was inundated with successful autistic people, personally.

The only thing that I'm cautious about is the world correlating autism with the various activities or causes that certain autistics undertake or represent. People should be viewed based on the activities, causes, efforts or accomplishments apart from their autism. Autistic people are human as well and prone to fallibility. The last thing I'd want to see, for example, is "the world" to correlate autism with Greta Thunberg's cause. I have nothing wrong with her cause, but she's human. What if she turned out to be a hypocritical sham in the future? Leave autism out of that.

I don't hate successful autistic people at all. I admire them and celebrate their successes.

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I don't hate autistic successful people at all. I'm actually proud that they were able to overcome their autism to be successful.

I've seen this too. I don't personally hate the more succesful autistic people, but I do get jealous at times.