Never went through teenage "rebellious" phase

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Not being rebellious as a teenager gets you the worst of both worlds: most adults will still regard you with contempt for the anti-social behavior of other teenagers and think they have teach you some manners the hard way, while your peers will shun you as a conformist and unadventurous coward, and possibly bully you.

I too never went through that teenage rebellious phase. I liked to study, my parents liked me to study and I used to hide away with my books and music.
My younger brother who is very outgoing spent his teenage in a contant stream of arguments, shouting, slamming doors and sulking

I didn't rebel much at all. The only "rebelling" I did was wearing all black and dying my hair purple, but my mom helped me with that

I really envy you two, but especially blueshift.

I didn't either cause I didn't find what is rebellious about the phase, I actually analyzed this concept over a period of three years as it profoundly disturbed me that it is considered a rebellion when rebellion is quite different and requires much more substance and meaning. I don't know why I got so disturbed by the whole teen rebellion thing but I still have pages and pages of notes on why it cheesed me off so potently!

I think I'll always be stuck in a rebellious phase.

Me neither. Never drank, never done drugs, never smoked. I was rebellious in the sense that I've never done well with random authority and don't agree with the way a lot of things work in society, but I've never rebelled against my family. It just wouldn't make sense.

I never went through a rebellious phase as a teenager.

However, at age 37, I went through a two-week period of feeling pretty rebellious, where for the first time, I told myself, I don't mind if I get into trouble anymore. That said, I think the most troublemaking thing I did during those two weeks was play my car radio somewhat louder than normal while driving in my normally quiet neighborhood. The only other odd thing that occurred during that time is that my views on pretty much every societal issue permanently changed from very conservative to very liberal.

But since those couple weeks, I'd say I've been out of my rebellious phase, to which I'll probably never return

I don't think I was rebellious but it may have seemed that way to my parents because I acted out a lot at home.
I was for sure emotionally disturbed.

My first year at high school I was shocked to learn that I was one of the untouchable girls. The ones who had cooties.
The boys would say"(name)proof" when they passed me in the halls so that they wouldn't get cooties. I think I was hurt a lot from that.

In my sophomore year I talked my parents into sending me to a different school, it was an all girl catholic high school.
I didn't like it there either.

I went back to public school for my junior and senior years but didn't graduate.
I recently sent a letter to my old high school asking for my school transcripts if they still had them because I was curious about things that happened then. It was a long time ago.

I was surprised that they still had them but it was also a shock to see how bad my grades were mostly D's and F's. I thought I did a little better than that.

I was also shocked to see my Differential Aptitude Test scores. They told my parents that I scored high in abstract reasoning and I found out it was the 99th percentile. I didn't do to bad in most of the other sub-tests either. Verbal reasoning in the 80th and mechanical reasoning in the 85th percentile.
So I must not have been stupid.

They had a shrink come to the school to evaluate me because of my grades and because I didn't have friends. He gave me the ink blot test but I refused to cooperate because it didn't seem very scientific. I wasn't afraid of what the test would reveal, but I was afraid the test was not accurate and would reveal inaccurate things about me.
He got mad and walked out.
If they had special education classes back then it may have helped me.
I must have seemed like a bad, rebellious teen but I was not capable of that. I was socially withdrawn and in my own world.

At this point, I wonder whether we're inherently any better than neurotypicals at abstract reasoning and similar skills, or we simply lack the instincts telling us we shouldn't practise them much because it lowers our status and lets others who have no qualms arguing fallaciously gain the upper hand.

I think there are a number of factors at play here. Our lack of social skills makes our social behavior more logic driven and less instinct driven. We just have a lot of practice and experience with being analytical of our behaviors and suppressing any of them that would cause us to be alienated, and we seem to have a tendency to be naturally more submissive and less assertive then neurotipicals. We also tend to have a lot less peer interaction so peer pressure wouldn't be as much of a probelem.

I remember that there actually have been a few times I lied about being sick because I had really bad anxiety and panic attacks when I was in high school.

We are better at abstract reasoning and similar skills because we are more visual, logical, and analytical.
It's a strength we are born with, a different way of thinking.
Even low functioning autistics do well on matrix reasoning tests.

And they say we are literal and concrete thinkers?

I tried one of the tests and I suck at it and I am very visual so that means I am atypical and not very good at abstract thinking which is what I have been informed and I was told I am very concrete.

I never really rebelled as a teen either. I did have a surly sullen apathetic attitude typical of some teens though. I remember getting in a few shouting matches with my mom . She got mad at told me i was angry all the time.i think i put up a macho ,tough front to hide how extremely sensitive i was.some of my friends seemed to be intimidated by me.i was always so tense and nervous.even the teachers used to joke about how i never smiled or laughed. I was diagnosed with aspergers around 13or14.i wish id handeled it better.I was also very logical as a teen and i think that kept me out of trouble. I guess i had to be my source of stability .i know people who used to party in high school but they turned out okay. Looking back i wish i would have enjoyed myself more and tried to cultivate friendships with the people who genuinely seemed to like and care about me.i do regret missing out on my youth.

I also didn't go through a rebellious stage as a teenager, as I basically waited until I was the legal age to drink alcohol, nor did I do any drugs.