Seriously people, whats with the attitude?

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As far as the superiority complex, I understand that not all Aspies come with high intelligence, but many do. When half the tests you take result in the top 90th percentile, you start to get a superiority complex. If you attribute your intelligence to Aspergers, then that makes logical sense that someone will then say, "Aspies are superior." You almost have to wait for them to mature enough to realize that their intelligence is unique to them, and their superiority complex isn't about Aspies vs NTs but that they are just better than everyone else. Then, as they mature more, they start to realize that everything in life has its Pro's and Con's, including ignorance and intelligence, so therefore, nothing is superior to the other as much as prefered.

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The truly mature person doesn't rank people by intelligence.

Intelligence is a virtue, it's just (usually) subordinate to "being a nice person", and cannot in any case be trivially measured and ranked.

The truly mature person doesn't rank people by intelligence.

I agree that it can't be trivially measured and ranked.

I strongly disagree that it is a virtue. Virtues are postive moral choices that people freely choose to exercise (or not). Intelligence is not a choice. It is a consequence of the neurological wiring somebody is born with. It is no more a virtue than left or right handedness is a virtue.

I don't hate all NT's either. I have been around long enough on the planet to meet fantastic NT's and also less than savoury ASD people.


Also, with regard to the OP's statement:

Many people here come here to WP as it is a safe place for them to express the pain and the difficulty of being ASD and living in a world that is predominantly NT in it structures and bureaucracies and behavioural and emotional and social expectations. If ASD people need to have a little gripe about that here and there on WP, perhaps you could afford them the right and let it go.
If they try to do it out in the real world (which is what is often done to them by NT's unwittingly by virtue of the fact the society and culture is normalised in terms of prevailing NT ways,) they get bullied and pilloried.

Please, I would ask you to respect and understand that perspective and take heed.
It is not necessarily my own (as I state at the outset of this post) but I do understand why others need to vent at times and do so with vehemence and with such fervour.

many here have spent a lifetime of not fitting in, of being criticised and bullied, of trying hard, of really finding life tough and I take my hat off to all humans who have had the courage to do keep on going in spite of incredible odds and hardhships.
If your experience has been different - you are one of the very, very lucky ones...... .