feelings of superiority?

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Sometimes I feel that too for myself.. I know it isn't true but I cannot really "sell" myself or my skills because I always think that I don't have any special skills, instead I can do so many things. Show me how they're done and I can do it, somehow. Then again I see my colleagues or friends who really excel in their field & I feel rather not-so-skilled again.

Anyway, many times though I do feel smarter than most of the people I know. Simply because I read about so many things and I acquire knowledge from a lot of these things, encounters, things I see when I go to work,... I learn something new everyday while many other people either just aren't interested or prefer spending their time on other (more NTish) things.

I often have the feeling that I'm surrounded by idiots (in RL, not here in this forum), and that I'm the only person who knows what he's talking about. But I also feel hopelessly inferior and disabled on many occasions. The first happens when I'm listening to people or reading the news, the second when I'm trying to interact with others and fail at the most basic social things.

I am NT and have an IQ in the top 2%, but I must somehow also be dumb because I can't see how that makes me 'better' than someone else
The idea of 'being' a superior person doesn't compute, it's like the idea of having a superior shade of purple.

Like everyone on the planet, there are some things I am better at than most and there are some things I am worse at than most. I don't think I'm superior due to those things I'm good at, as I just need to think of those other things, to keep my ego in check.

The problem is not that hate is directed specifically at people on the spectrum. The problem is that anyone who is different from the norm is going to be subject to discrimination, and so Aspies are likely to project their feelings of hostility onto NT's as whole, even if this is an irrational conclusion.

It's all very nice to be special, but if you don't use it to make the world a better place, what use is it?

I feel like that alot, but that's due to the fact that I'm most of the time surrounded by buffoons :/

When I'm in a social situation I do have a tendency to look at the people around me and think, "Shut up, you're all idiots!" But I think that feeling has more to do with my being insecure and overstimulated, rather than arrogant. Then again, insecurity and arrogance have a way of working together. Napoleon complex being a good example.

Totally off topic, but is your latest avatar the dragon from "Ivor the engine"? A magical TV programme from my childhood. They don't make 'em like that any more.

I don't think of myself as superior.

I have strengths and I have weaknesses. I long ago accepted that I'm more intelligent than most people, but that can cause just as many problems as it can solve (particularly socially). I accepted my utter inability to ever play any kind of video game and be good at it, I can't even play super mario cart, let alone something like WOW, but I also avoided becoming addicted to gaming (in all likelihood) because of it.

Nobody is superior because every trait you have comes with a good side and a bad side. If you focus too much on your good sides or on your bad sides you will warp your perception of yourself, and then by extension, you will end up with a warped perception of everyone else.

Well you certainly aren't the only aspie that feels that way from what I've seen, but no I personally have no superiority complex.

It happens at least once each day ... I'll spot a problem and offer to provide the solution myself. "They" (church, family, work, et cetera) will tell me that the problem does not exist, and that I should do nothing about it. Sooner or later (same day to many months after), the problem will "blow up" in their faces, and I get my "golden neener" moment.

It's come to the point where I don't even have to say, "I tried to warn you" or even "I told you so". They just have to see the smirk on my face.

I can see the problems, why can't they? Why won't they let me fix them?

It's hard to maintain this feeling of superiority when I get so few chances to demonstrate it.

I have worked with and read articles by very brilliant NTs. The expertise that these NTs have to offer....are unparalleled and phenomenal in many cases.

I simply bring something different to the table.

One day, a few of you arrogant ones, are going to come across a NT who is going to 'pull your coat'.

TheSunAlsoRises

I don't - I feel like I'm worse than everybody else.

Arrogant, egotistical people come in all shapes and sizes with all sorts of different neurology.

I definitely don't feel the same. And personally would not want to be associated with or "lumped into a group with" someone who does feel this way. Please don't give us all a bad name because of your narcissism.