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
Lol. I like some of your "junk" coming out of your head. Couldn't agree more about the Capitalist consumerism.
You don't have to be autistic to be bright, but, I think, there are different types of intelligence, which combined with personality lead to different applications of that intelligence.
Plenty of 'frivolous', 'capitalist', 'comsumerists' are mega intelligent, but I am left to wonder how many of them are autistic. Not many, I suspect. How many autistic people would rather apply their logic to the well being of the many, than that nonscense? I'm imagining more than a fair few of us will pipe up - 'well, I would, for one'.
Is this social intelligence v dispassionate analytics, perhaps?
Thank you so much. I just read some of the discussions and thought ‘wow these are highly intelligent people, the like I’ve never seen online before’. And I don’t normally like talking to many people or think ‘oh that’s interesting conversation, I’d like to be involved’
NAS88864 said:And I don’t normally like talking to many people or think ‘oh that’s interesting conversation, I’d like to be involved’
If you aren't already diagnosed, and are interested in whether you might be 'on the spectrum' this is a good test and was used as part of my NHS (via a private company) diagnosis:
https://embrace-autism.com/raads-r/
Also, lots of people on this site are self identified.