Fitting in a group is not only unnatural, but uncomfortable

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I see groups as categories and I don't believe in categories, so I don't try to fit into any group to impress the vast majority of humans.

This is posted more than a week later so I doubt anyone will read it, but it was good for me to write for myself.

Learning is rarely about memorizing the validity or proofs about a subject, it is nearly always about the subject itself.
I do not and cannot memorize the sources of everything I hear, see, or read - and I don't care to, it's not my special interest.
Nor do I try to argue the validity, possibilities, nor the conclusions of all information that's ever gone into my head.

I try to understand it and verify it when I'm hearing about things, but my brain is not Wikipedia and neither is WP.
If I want to write a book on something then I'll look it all up.

In the mean time if someone wants a better understanding on something I'll try to give my POV and heartfelt beliefs in an attempt to express my understanding, not prove it.
"Proving it" would take along time and very much effort and usually a person that wants the most "proof" is simply being argumentative and in the end finds some way to ignore even mass quantities of "verifiable facts."

I do believe that our brains are faster, better, stronger in many unique and variable ways.
I think the best indication of this is that NTs naturally and "instinctively" begin filtering the incoming data very early on and keep working hard on filtering out more and more data as they get older, their experience apparently demonstrates to them that they need to increase their filtering and that must mean that their brains believe that it cannot handle processing the input.
ASD brains do not seem to develop very strong filtering, meaning either it is too stupid to filter things (amazingly unlikely) OR it thinks it can possibly handle the input, meaning it's probably handling it better than the brain that just gives up instantly and starts a lifelong campaign of "power ignoring" the world around it, immediately and urgently putting up mental shields so that it doesn't see anything unexpected.

Also remember that most of the information we have about Autism was "discovered" and interpreted by NeuroTypicals who are renown for the attitude of, "If it's different than me, then it's what's broken," and, "They think differently than me therefore they're wrong."

Or, "My, they have low processing power," without paying attention to what's actually being processed.
Ever hear the phrase, "attention to detail?"
Meaning we're processing much more data in finer detail than they, because they're constantly surprised about the few things we do mention.

This makes sense to me. Especially the part about how autism has been interpreted from the perspective of NTs.

Also LupaLuna's earlier post about how it is like overclocking a computer processor to the point that it crashes. The way I feel is like my brain has a super fast processor, but is sorely lacking in RAM so it crashes frequently.