Isn't this kind of silly?

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They say there are advantages AND disadvantages to being an aspie or having a autistic spectrum disorder.

But can't you say the same thing for NT's?!

Why single out the autists?

Has this issue ever been raised before?

Surely there is advantage and a disadvantage to being any kind of person...

"They say there are advantages AND disadvantages to being an aspie or having a autistic spectrum disorder."

Having fought AS and its symptoms for the last thirty years I cannot think of ANY advantages of being an AS sufferer (although I'm open to suggestions). If they offered me a pill that cures AS I would take it in a heartbeat.

Ed Almos

how about not having to rely on other people to amuse yourself? or being able to focus on something so intensely like an NT cannot?

Sometimes I would like NOT to focus on things so intensely.

Most any statement we make will be a comparison against something else (the work of George Lakoff, especially Metaphors We Live By, and Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, both of which people might find interesting as a study of the way NT speech is absolutely littered with metaphor and comparitive meaning, makes this abundantly clear) (Agh! Too many subordinate clauses!). Inevitably, when we talk about things outside the norm (and those with AS are outside the norm), there's a baseline to compare against. So there's an implicit "compared with NTs," included in saying that there are advantages and disadvantages. They're the majority, so they're the baseline against which everything else is going to be compared.

If having or not having certain traits is maladaptive for one groups its
rather simple logic that another group with the reverse situation would likely find it adaptive. When we talk about our ASD related
problems on WP we are basically talking about NT's advantages so there is no real need to devote a thread to the advantages of being NT. Its rather obvious.

I think Nt's are rather boring, I am happy with who I am.

NTs only want to move up in the world and be better than the next guy. its all fake

maybe?