Published on 12, July, 2020
That's been my experience in nearly 50 years as a late diagnosed autistic person with serious mental illness . There's an expectancy/demand even of near uniformity of intellectual performance, among the various areas of cognition, that many autistic people can't satisfy. For me that resulted in many years of being treated as though I was an awkward so and so, with a major character defect. It's also meant never getting help and support for the impaired executive functioning I've always struggled with.
I think many health professionals all round don't understand or like intellegence in thier patients. I do think there's a sense that people with ASD shouldn't ask questions about our treatment, and that we should be content with being patted on the head.
So very true. I think they like you to be neither too intelligent or too unintelligent.