We are not superior to NT'S!

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I believe the "we are superior" impression that we occasionally (either advertently or inadvertently) put out there arises from a lifetime of being made to feel like we are inferior. It is a defensive reaction to our overwhelming experiences of feeling defective, misunderstood, marginalized, ridiculed, exploited, etc.

ANYONE (autistic or not) will sometimes react this way in the face of perceived annihilation from another group of people (in our case, NTs) who constantly (intentionally or not) send the message that THEY are superior. When another person or group of people repeatedly drills into you that you are "abnormal", you feel like crap, and at some point you want to say "hey, I am NOT LESS than you!" On a bad day, however, when we've had enough and just need to feel we belong on this earth as much as the next guy, we might overstep our boundaries and say "Not only am I not less than you, maybe I'm better than you! So there!" Of course, we know this is not true, any more than the opposite is true.

We are just pissed and want the object of our anger to feel as bad as we do, which is a normal reaction for anyone.

Autism (especially Asperger's and HFA) is INVISIBLE, leading to a lack of accommodation and understanding, which is fundamentally wrong, and ticks us off, and so we are bound to react badly to this from time to time.

From what I know and read here on WP and elsewhere, we with autism do not really believe we are better than anyone else at all, BUT we are also sick and tired of having to fight so hard not to feel completely worthless.

Seeing as we have developmental delay,
we are less than NTs in many ways.
Some of us may be more gifted in some areas
but this in no way means all of us are
and this leads
to the undeniable fact that all people exist on different levels,
some may have disabilities, some may be smart but even those without disabilities
can still be as disadvantaged as us.

LifUlfur - I love your profile "location" - very clever. Wish I had thought of that.

I never get the 'superior-thing' anyway! I think it's a typical human way of thinking. Which i don't quite get. But hey, i don't get a lot of things so shoot me

Young adult autistics have a 28 times higher rate of planned, attempted, or completed suicides than NTs'. I think you would find that most of them were at least partially related to being treated badly and given a low self-esteem because of mistreatment by NT's. I can not think of one, not one suicide story where a young NT person attempted suicide because of the "meanie autistics." So, are NTs' superior in destroying innocent peoples' lives? You betcha!

I agree, nor are we less.

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I strongly agree with Walrus and the OP.

We're not superior or inferior, we're just different.

[quote="nikkiDT"]Aspie, NT whatever. We're all human beings, and we all have our strengths, weaknesses and struggles.[/quote}
This is very true.

Are they the human ? or am I the human ? What is human ?

It is not politically correct to believe that you are superior to someone else. With that logic we are all equal and Einstein is no smarter than anyone else. The fact is that autistics are geniuses and neurotypicals are too jealous to admit it. Rather than putting us in classes for the gifted and talented neurotypicals love to put us in special education ret*d schools. Neurotypicals want us to think that we are dumb. What nuerotypicals need to do is get out of our way otherwise these tyrants will hold us back forever. All we need to do is speak the truth but neurotypicals will use fear tactics to hold us back. But what do we have to lose? How many times do we have to let these tyrants fire us from good paying jobs before we realize that they have no right to take our unemployment benefits away from us if we protest.