Published on 12, July, 2020
IMO. Others may disagree. I've been called everything from a genius to a fool. I've never come across a neurotypical
person with such differing opinions as to how intelligent they are. A situation can occur whereby you are deemed too intelligent to need help and support with x, and yet
not intelligent enough to make use of help with y.
I had a long career in biomedical research, published many papers and wrote 3 book chapters, but I cannot do mental arithmetic to save my life. I have no idea whether the change I get after buying something is correct. I think that autistic people tend to have a much higher degree of variation in skills than neurotypicals. I am almost tempted to say neurotypicals are mediocre at everything, but that would be just mean, and incorrect in some cases.
With me it's geometry. Forever useless at it.