Why do people treat us like we’re special/wrong/ret*d???

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And how do you prefer to be thought of?

From what I've seen, the style of treatment of us has at least some of its roots in some kind of neurotypical Need to label and quantify things in order to have their world make sense - I have seen some of them who develop actual physical stress and anxiety when they encounter a thing which can be only poorly defined, boxed.

And since neurotypicals, allistics, whichever word suits, are the majority of people, the things which are right and normal to them are things which are similar to them and understandable by them.

Things which are unlike them and less than fully understandable to them must therefore be defective because if those things were not defective then they would by definition be just like them.
Yeah, it sure looks like some kind of circular reasoning or something, "We are standard of normal because we are the standard of normal".

As for me, I prefer to be thought of as being me.

Why do we get treated like we’re less than and in what ways are we superior?

I see myself as a life form, a sentient feeling being...just the same way I see everyone ands everything else that is alive.

Maybe we should all get a job in our interests and get expert training ?

It's probably because of how autism is usually explained in text. When it says "lack of empathy" people think it means "psychopathic, heartless, unlovable". When it says "lack of imagination" people think it means "cannot imagine anything".

Perhaps they should have changed the name "autism" to something less misleading as soon as they discovered more about autism. It's a bit like calling ADHD "hyperism" or something. Not a very accurate name for what autism actually is.

I like to be seen as a person who has feelings and talents.

I'll be brutally honest, as there were people; whom, treated me as if I was of a lower intellectual level due to the fact, I was in the Special Education system within school at the time.

If Aspergers were the majority, what would a disfunctional NT symptoms be? Psychologically?