Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi, I just stumbled across this site and found myself reading the discussions which are very interesting. I set up a profile which you’re welcome to ignore because I don’t really know completely what I’m on about but these are the half unformed thoughts about myself and my life that I have been wondering about.
How do you know if you’re just above average intelligent/academic or on the autism spectrum?
I might say something wrong while explaining this, I’m sorry if I have already, using wrong terms etc because I’m not deeply educated on it.
I’ve kind of been thinking isn’t it rational to shun socializing if you’re intelligent and not necessarily in an environment where you have connection with other intelligent people?.
Isn’t preferring objects to people rational for someone academic? Humans are quite silly and frivolous and unless you’re working at a top uni, not going to be highly intelligent. But does avoidance of them mean you’re arrogant or use your brain in a more productive way. Some people take drugs or drink so maybe they’re not going to be using their brain to its full capacity.
So isn’t it just a survival instinct that if you’re clever, you’re going to prefer to be alone rather than settle for averagely intelligent humans, which might look like there’s something wrong.
Isn’t it a fact that we live in an unaesthetic, Capitalist, Consumerist driven world that often makes the man/woman made world quite ugly, full of fake advertising and trash. So isn’t avoiding all that sensory disingenuous junk again rational?
Isn’t it rational to order the world around us, so isn’t keeping collections and cataloging the height of intelligence?
Doesn’t it just mean that you’re a good person if you like rules and like them to be followed?
Isn’t the best way to get things done during the day to have a repetitious routine? And not liking it when undisciplined people come along and try and tear you from your strict routine, just because they’re lazy and lack focus and are addicted to frivolous hedonism.
Might be utter junk coming out of my head, thank you
A person can be autistic and a high academic achiever or be allistic (not autistic) and a high academic achiever. I can tell you, in general, the allistic high academic achiever will do better in university employment than the autistic, even if their intelligence is on a par. I worked for 34 years in two Russell Group universities, and in universities, like just about everywhere else, success is based on playing the system and dependent on the type of 'soft skills' in socialising and politicking that autistic people are notably poor at.
Ahhh so even if you’re highly intelligent you’ve still got to be good at the small talk to succeed there. I was thinking that as an academic you could kind of escape all that. I remember reading or hearing descriptions of academics as being obsessed with their specialist subject and in their own world. When I was there 18 years ago I remember being disappointed that people weren’t like that at all. Maybe it would be good if there were Autistic universities.