Deficient behaviors of NTs

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One question is: Is it a neurotypical trait to be able to reason logically and rationally?

The argument seems rather fallacy-laden. Most people are NT's, and thus, if you are bullied in the school/workplace, chances are it's by NT's. Also, the term "NT" is rather misleading, as it implies that the person is "typical," when in the context of this forum, all it means is that you do not have AS. I know people who are completely and utterly insane and the opposite of typical, and yet would be considered "neurotypical" in regards to Asperger's. Also, many NT's bully other NT's, as was I, quite badly at some points.

It's obvious to me that the concept of judging an entire demographic on merely the limited group of people that you've met in your lifetime is plainly illogical. And the irrationality of it is actually why it seems odd the a good number of AS people have such a prejudice. Surely you can understand, from an outside perspective, how strange it seems to me that quite a few people belonging to a group (Asperger's) that is defined partly by logical and rational thought, can lower their mental functioning to a point of harboring intense prejudice (a distinctly illogical and irrational trait).

And, oddly enough, one of my biggest problems, according to my psychologist, is that I am rigidly logical to the extent that it impedes my social functioning (she also thinks I show serious signs of Asperger's, something she told me after I was a member of this site).

Also, I do not understand such prejudice based on the fact that there is such a thin line between NT and AS, hell, half the people here aren't even sure they have it or consider themselves self-diagnosed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know psychiatrists are all idiots or whatever, but in spite of some AS-like traits I do not think I have the syndrome, and yet, I have found that I am much more Aspergian than many of the "unsure" or "self-diagnosed" people here. How can you be prejudiced when you don't even know who is who?

I'm not talking about "prejudice." Prejudice is prejudgment without actual experience. I gain all of my insights from actual experience and from all too intimate contact with people who want to control me like I was a dangerous animal, who use delusional thought processes to excuse threats, control, and actual physical attacks. They don't want me around animals, by the way, because I could so easily show them up.

NTs don't have a disability; that's what makes them NT.

^ I think the reason that NT stands for "neurotypical" is because they don't have any neurological disorders, including ASDs. They may have physical problems, but their minds are unaffected, and that's where the "neuro" comes from. It's not called "physi-typical" for a reason.

oops. double posted.

If non-autistic people do have specific difficulties (which I'm sure they do), they're likely to be at a more basic cognitive level than even something silly like "logical thinking deficits" or something. And those difficulties are likely to be related to something really useful about the way their brain works -- this is how tradeoffs often happen in the brain, you lose one set of skills to gain another (and there are many such periods in non-autistic development).

But there is absolutely nothing that makes them less moral on the whole than autistic people. I believe that if the world were run by autistic people we would cause a lot of the same disasters that non-autistic society does, we're just not in charge so don't get blamed for them as often.

At least, when I see autistic people get together in groups, I see the same things I see in non-autistic groups: Cliques, gossip, oneupmanship, nastiness to people who aren't cool enough, etc.

The fact that a group of people usually doesn't have the chance to abuse power, doesn't mean we won't abuse power if we do get the chance. And anyone who thinks they are immune to abusing power, is one of the most likely sorts of people to actually abuse it. Whether they are autistic or not.

Many groups of people make the mistake of thinking since they don't have the social power other people do, they would do things better. Like a lot of women used to think that if women were in politically powerful positions we'd do better than men. But it's not true. Look at Hillary Clinton, she strikes me as just as corrupt as a whole lot of the men doing her job out there.

So just because you haven't had the chance to do all the nasty things non-autistic people have often had the chance to do, doesn't mean you wouldn't do them if you did have the chance.

Let's not overlook the disability that trumps all others, which all of us share: being human.