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
I don't think there's really any difference in intelligence between autistic and allistic people overall. I think that special interests can make us look like we're super clever because we know EVERYTHING about them, when what we actually have is dedication- but to be fair, dedication can be just as much of a positive or negative trait as intelligence depending on what you do with it.
I'm very academically able but I feel like my type of intelligence is still different from that of an allistic person with similar academic achievements. The academic stuff might come a bit more naturally to me than it does to them (not in every case though) but I also have a real aura of "how can someone so smart be so dense" because I have no sense of direction and I never remember where I put anything
This is very interesting about dedication. Yes I was thinking maybe also because Autistic spectrum people don’t do frivolous socializing they spend more hours on their specialism. I used to like the term Monomaniac and would say that this is what I was. But then I think well how about all the Scientists that obsess about certain theories for life who aren’t on the spectrum. It’s fascinating to discuss thank you.