I think I am superior to neurotypicals

I don't think I'm superior to neurotypicals, or anybody else actually but I am envious of them with their seemingly easy capabilities with interacting with people and making friends lolol  

We all have our own strengths and weaknesses. I'm useless with people and can't interact well but I'm like a fountain of knowledge on bees and am hopefully a good person, just some of my strengths, probably not appealing to others but I'm proud of them and myself.

I think superiority is wholly subjective in self-referential terms. 

It depends on the frame of reference. 

And the value we ascribe to the content.

I could think of a few ways in which I could claim to be superior, using popular measures, if I cared at all about doing so. But since my values are different, it's irrelevant to me.

If there are things we like and enjoy about ourselves, I tend to think that's an end in itself.

Do we need to measure ourselves against others? 

Different horses for different courses, just some courses are more popular and some horses more valued than others. "Better" isn't always objective.

Hahaha, yes. Intellectually and morally. But my worldliness is not good, so I have to accept that in other areas (emotions, realism, politics) other have a huge advantage over me. 

Yes, walk a mile in our shoes, so to speak..

I would actually like to see a realistic remake of Superman that shows him screaming on the floor and smacking his head because he's so overwhelmed by his super-senses.

i dunno.... sometimes.
i find alot of people think how the media tell them to think, they go with a crowd where as i reject a crowd because crowds have been against me so im against the crowd and mistrust the crowd. everyone else is crowd think, they all think copy paste. you can see this on social media if you argue against anyone each person says the same thing as if they copy pasted the same lies to use and have no ability to defend that point if you challenge it or poke holes in it because it wasnt their idea or words it was someone elses they all copy pasted.

so i dunno, i think of it this way.... if we are system/machines like chat bots.... then i am a real AI that makes my own words and ideas and can fully defend them and reword anything over and over... where as the majority of people are fake AI which is called a VI instead, which doesnt make its own words it relys on imput and then regurgitating that imput to others to fool others into thinking its a AI (which is actually most so called AI in existence today, its all fake regurgitating words it has been given, so its just virtual intelligence) 

I agree, more collaboration+ co-operation, less competition.

I don't know, that's for us all to potentially individually explore if we want and choose to imo.

I spend a lot of time trying to build up my sons self esteem as low confidence seems to overtake his excellent talents. 

Be proud of what you do, and achieve. I'm great at cake decorating so I'm not going to say I'm not to make others comfortable

Super human eh....

I like the sound of that. 

I'm tired of hearing autistic people be meek, tame and timid. 

️Back yourself and realise that what you excel in is your special quality and the world can benefit from it. 

Is the way that you think better than the way an NT person thinks?

So I am a narcissist? 

Also my emotions are strong

Guilt actually hurts me and effects me on a daily basis with my kids. It does cause actual pain. However I like to keep my emotions,.as I am an empath (we need these in the world too) but heck I'd y anyone to build my flat pack furniture as I hate instructions and don't get them 

I think what ever makes you comfortable and happy is paramount. 

My son is ND and as a mum, I'm convinced that neuro diversity in some ways is the next super humans. The attention to detail, the high sense of smell, can hear a pin drop, can hear frequencies. I lo learning and being a part of it when it's the good times

I think that I’ve peaked abilities that others would not need to peak, because they do not work with a spared-cognition, but that’s about it.

It’s hard to make a superiority-argument though, as they have more-varied and more-complex cognition to equip, though too-many choices can make singular-mastery harder. I’d say I’m different at best..

I see now I've had narcissism problems in my past for various reasons e.g. conditioning imo. Hopefully I'm now less narcissistic than I have been. It has hindered not helped my life experience as contributed to me being more disconnected than connected to my self/Self and therefore others I think, sadly (like Fetohep describes below). Two books I'm glad I have about this subject are The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture_of_Narcissism and Narcissism: Denial of the True Self by Alexander Lowen https://www.amazon.co.uk/Narcissism-Denial-True-Alexander-Lowen/dp/0743255437  which make a lot of sense to me #Aloofness

THIS!

Yes, there are things that I am better at than NT's that I know, but there are things that I struggle with that would be a "walk in the park" for a NT.

What I do struggle with at times is when I (using my ND "gift") spot things, but the NT's dismiss it and believe that their version is correct. Now that I have shared my diagnosis with my work colleagues and given them some insight into my ND world, hopefully there will be better understanding....on both sides. 

No, I don't think I'm superior to neurotypical people, just different.

There are specific things that I'm really good at compared to most people, and some of them are related to being autistic- I spot details and patterns that others don't, I have an unusually good memory, etc. But there are also things other people can do that I can't, like cooking and driving. Overall I think it probably balances out.

Funnily enough in some ways I might have felt like that in the past before I realised I was autistic.

I used to get very angry at what I saw as obliviousness. People just not noticing things.

This is because I expected people to be able to be as aware of their environment as I am. So when they didn't notice things I saw as obvious, it would make me angry, maybe I assumed they were being needlessly self-centred or something.

I'm thinking of when you're on a busy street and just navigating, making space for people etc, and they don't notice that you've done that for them. Things like that.

The first thing that happened is that the complications of my autism turned up, and suddenly I was no longer able to be as alert on the street as I once was, I was focusing on just putting one foot in front of the other, people now had to move around me and I didn't have the capacity to acknowledge them.

Then, later, I got my autism diagnosis, and realised that my observational skills are particular to my own neurology, so I no longer felt angry at others for not having them.

After that I felt a little happier and less isolated.

Personally I don't think there's such a thing as neurotypical. I think there might be a neurotype you could call "neuroefficient", and these people happen to function best under the current regime. So they get labelled "typical", and historically we get labelled deficient. They're really good at just getting stuff done, understanding undetailed instruction, and understanding complex social norms. That's why I call them neuroefficent., it's like their brains know all the short-cuts. But of course, our brains can read the map in all its glorious details. Dyslexics probably see the map in 3D, and ADHDers are the time-travellers, they see the map as a four dimensional swirling vortex. I think we all need each other.