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Feeling like a savant and worries of delusion of grandeur

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I feel like a savant based on my restricted interests, is this normal? I don't mean to sound like I have delusion of grandeur, but that is this core symptom of ASD that I experience.

I am sorry for being worried that I have delusion of grandeur, some people will think how insane I am if I tell them that I am ten times more intelligent than them.

That is why it is very hard to tell the difference between restricted interests and Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

I am sorry that I said that, but some symptoms of ASD looks very similar to NPD by observation.

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  • Hi, I have interests that I do research and have become quite knowledgable in, to me it’s that I do just get very absorbed in a subject. I enjoy finding out as much as possible about my special interest. I don’t look at myself as highly intelligent. I do function by logic, I have done a recent IQ test and the results were high, it doesn’t make me intelligent, the test is ideal for autistic brains as it’s based on working out patterns in numbers, diagrams and shapes, it’s pure logic. If I turn the spell check off on my phone, you then wouldn’t understand me, I have a problem with words, that doesn’t make me unintelligent either, my view is intelligence levels should be based over a broad spectrum. Our interests as autistic people are just us being us. Sometimes I’ve researched a subject and then ‘dropped it’ and have then gone to a new subject. I’ve always thought that if I can learn one thing everyday then I’m doing okay.  

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  • Hi, I have interests that I do research and have become quite knowledgable in, to me it’s that I do just get very absorbed in a subject. I enjoy finding out as much as possible about my special interest. I don’t look at myself as highly intelligent. I do function by logic, I have done a recent IQ test and the results were high, it doesn’t make me intelligent, the test is ideal for autistic brains as it’s based on working out patterns in numbers, diagrams and shapes, it’s pure logic. If I turn the spell check off on my phone, you then wouldn’t understand me, I have a problem with words, that doesn’t make me unintelligent either, my view is intelligence levels should be based over a broad spectrum. Our interests as autistic people are just us being us. Sometimes I’ve researched a subject and then ‘dropped it’ and have then gone to a new subject. I’ve always thought that if I can learn one thing everyday then I’m doing okay.  

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