Aspergers are known as little professors?

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What is it that makes people think we are little professors?


And what does that make Aspergers people good at?

I'm not a 'little professor' and I wasn't as a child either.

And it's not to say NT children can't have good knowledge for facts on a subject. When my (definitely NT) cousin was 4, he loved dinosaurs and knew every fact about them. He once told me the name of every dinosaur using his collection of dinosaur toys, including interesting facts about them that I, then 11, didn't even know about. He was just crazy about dinosaurs and had been since he was about 1 (before he had any friends).

I learnt more facts about dinosaurs from a 4-year-old in one day than I ever did at school (not that I had a particular interest in dinosaurs or anything).

what would happy if the Asperger got an interest in the world of universe?

Being a Little Professor in my opinion is a good thing. It means that you know more information about something than most people. You are a little expert.

And what does that make Aspergers people good at?
I found many things in life to be very interesting. I would study that area and become a bit of an expert. But then something else came along and I would chase that topic down. So as time went on, I became a bit of an expert on many different areas.

This trait can make you an expert in whatever field you choose. But, But, But, But, But
A true expert knows the truth. Some of the information in whatever field you chose is false. To be a true expert, you have to be able to determine what is accurate and what is false.

(Not all Aspies have this trait.)

I was the Hans Asperger textbook example of a "little professor". Knew all kinds of stuff from books. When I was eight I knew all of the planets, their sizes, their characteristics, etc. But I had trouble riding a two wheeled bike.

The overly verbose expressions of sharing special interests, and/or obscure and/or trivial facts.

Basically infodump. Except in a more articulate manner that actually pars in college level verbal terms.


I certainly am not one of these.
I don't have the right type of verbosity whether or not I have the right type and depth of interests.

I don't even have the language skills to actually do it.

I can keep up listening with such. Sometimes looking forward to it somehow earlier in life.
Yet I met no one who does. And no one's ever given me that except actual literal professors.


It might be different for girls.
Instead of little professors, it's little philosophers by thinking deeply about social situations, human interactions and it's nature.
Might be a stereotype.

I'm not exactly one of these either. But it's closer to me in expression than the former.

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I'm more like a doctor, and specialist and adviser on everything for my family. People expect me to know everything, I mean everything, from plumbing to office relationship dynamic to other countries' tax laws to weird cancer. One can not know all that. I'm rather sick of being made to be a know-it-all. They started asking me for advice since I was 9. I must always be right and never make mistakes in anything I do.

My autistic kids are free. Nobody expect them to know much and they don't look like little professors.

I fit this stereotype pretty closely as a kid in a lot of ways, especially if dinosaurs or history or chemistry or military aviation were the topics.

Certain traits get recognized as gifted but often there's a tendency to overlook how being gifted isn't a pure blessing among reasons because it often makes it harder to learn good work ethic, it can contribute to being stuck up if one sees everything comes easier to them and it can make one less willing to endure struggling if they've never had to struggle before.

Hi. I think the little professor thing from asperger's is to give a monologue on a given special subject in a lecturing tone in lieu of conversation. I personally do this lecturing thing whether I am asked to or not. Small talk is something I cannot come to terms with.

Cheers brett.