Do any of you find that if you're "intelligent" people expect for to "overcome" your AS symptoms, when they don't have this expectation of people they see as "less-intelligent"?
I have used my intellect to learn consciously how to interpret peoples' behaviour in some circumstances so I don't make the mistakes I did as a child, and it has helped me understand my self better, but there is so much that is not available to intellectual influence, let alone control.
I find this view very irritating.
Silver100 it is intensely irratating and I'm glad you brought that up. Also myself and my son struggle to get support because we are apparently too "high functioning" - yes I work to pay my mortgage etc. yes my lad is high acheiving in school - so we are doing ok? Personally I think all credit to our tenacity. Sometimes, often, I think that intelligence is subjective and it comes at a cost...
Silver100 it is intensely irratating and I'm glad you brought that up. Also myself and my son struggle to get support because we are apparently too "high functioning" - yes I work to pay my mortgage etc. yes my lad is high acheiving in school - so we are doing ok? Personally I think all credit to our tenacity. Sometimes, often, I think that intelligence is subjective and it comes at a cost...
