Are people on the Autisim Spectrum superior to NeuroTypicals

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Just wondering what people think.

No, neither is 'superior'.

Nope.

Some people are superior to other people, but I've met a lot of aspies and can easily say that aspies are just as diverse as the general population in terms of personality, knowledge and skills.

Of course they are.

nope,

i have seen some stupid things on these boards, as in in youtube comment distrubingly stupid.

I voted 'No'. The idea that a person can be superior simply due to a quirk of genetics or their biological make up is a view that went out of fashion somewhere around 1945.

No person is automatically superior to others. I've often found that when people build a belief around their own groups supposed superiority it is often due to a profound crisis of identity or feelings of exclusion. It really is not the way forward.

No in my opinion everyone is equal.

I'd say not remotely, in general.

Now, I personally have plenty of 'Above Average' skills and traits. Also have penty of 'Below Average' skills and traits. This kind of generalized Better or Worse thinking strikes me as a sort of insecurity (No judgement intended, there, just an observation from my personal experience.. ie I've done it PLENTY of times over the years). Attempts to asssociate oneself with a superior OR inferior group for whatever reason detract from personal development.

'Course, that could just be my inability to associate with groups speaking, but I think it's true regardless.

Either way, people can be brilliant and focused without being socially impaired in any way just as easily as socially impaired people can be scattered and slow. There are people just flat-out good at everything and flat-out bad at everything. Trying to lay claim to any sort of superiority ultimately only exposes one's bias.

No, not at all.

Hmm I don't believe I am better than NTs, or 100 percent different. To me (and this is only speaking from my own personal point of view) I feel like NTs are butterflies and I am a moth; not that different really but there are a few differences that can be notified when both behaviours are observed. Let's say there are lots of different breeds and colours of butterflies and I'm a moth surrounded by them, I have a lot in common with them; I can flutter my wings and fly just as effectively as the butterflies can, and I can even be passed off as a butterfly if I am mingled in with them all, and I'm no better or worse than the butterflies, I can also connect to butterflies, but the only differences are I am a moth and I fly more at night, and I eat clothes and carpet.

That explains that I, as an Aspie, am no better or worse than NTs (well I think I'm worse than other people but that's just my low self-esteem and irrational thinking), and at the end of the day I'm a human just like them, and it's not like ''you meet one NT you met them all'' because that's not true, but my differences to the general population are I get more flustered or anxious more easily over small things what others wouldn't so much, and I have some social difficulties that hold me back, and I have obsessive thinking to a higher degree than the general population (with interests and anxieties), and I may be unable to handle loud noises.

That's the way I look at it. Makes me feel better when I imagine myself as a moth among butterflies.

Superior in what way? If you mean superior in their ability to get along in society, then no. If you mean more agreeable in general, then no, not really.

No. I've seen enough stupidity, arrogance, and intellectual dishonesty to be convinced that we aren't as rational as we make ourselves out to be. True intellectualism is as hard to find as true journalism.

"Autistic supremacy" thread is divisive and offensive, so has been locked.