The neurotypical superpower.

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Yes, I guess the 'convoluted book' in question must have been the bible.

I don't know if it was insecurity on my uncle's part, I think it was inappropriate for me to have said it to him.
What happened is something, there should be a word for it, but there is no word for it.
There was another instance where my mother was throwing out a decorative ornament, an oriental opium pipe and then she said 'I don't like this any more what do you think?' then I said 'Ah the allure of the mysterious East!' now she got really upset when I said this to her, she was angry at me and I didn't know why, I told her 'its not my fault I can't help it!' and then she said 'and serial killers can't help it either' something like that.
Its a pathological inability to say things that people want to hear, and to my mind thats what conversation is about. Now you can say maybe you have a zany family but this stuff has been happening to me my whole life I didn't have friends and a social life growing up. I'm not introverted I looove talking, describing the world the way I see it but people aren't buying and thats something that I have grown to accept now.

As for 'known quantities' I believe that language is about measurement so I totally buy into what you said.

Whether someone was in the wrong isn't the main point.

I think the main point is my brain, it doesn't react in a normal way which really is engineering a social advantage.
Perhaps always telling people what they want to hear isn't the golden rule, but the other extreme is my earlier life which was pretty damned lonely

The first thirty five years of my life were a desperate attempt hope that I could explain myself to other people, I tried to in language and art but it was science that allowed me to do it, with the word 'autism'. I owe science a lot and I look forward to a time when my experiences can be explained within a robust logical framework.

most neurotypicals dont have anything interesting about them, hence the name. we aquire talent for something we are passion about, or many things. alot of people struggle to find meaning in life but i feel sorry for "nts" who don't have anything they are passionate about or put their heart and soul into.

I think neurotypicals brains are simply just optimized for group cohesiveness, which from an evolutionary point of view might have been beneficial during a time like the Stone Age. They have their own set of neurological problems, the problems just aren't labeled in medical journals because over 90% percent of the human population is neurotypical, so they don't really see their own problems. They compare against a larger group so they tend see a problem as a problem only if its an abnormality. Not that neurotypicals are insane, they have their on strengths and weaknesses but for example if 90% of the population was insane would they be labeled insane? If 90% of a population had schizophrenia would schizophrenia be labeled a mental disorder? I would argue a disorder logically is only a disorder if its causes the person with the disorder or other people harm. Logically neurotypicals have their own set of harmful qurks that just aren't obvious to them, for example their brains are so optimized for group cohesiveness that they tend to have this instintual fear of being isolated from a group to the point where they have an increased risk of following a group in highly irrational ways, hilter and concentration camps is a perfect example of this at an extreme. Neurotypicals are optimized for group cohesiveness so they run everything through social filters and instintually pick up suddle social ques, where as I feel autistic brains tend to be more logic optimized and run things through logical filters, if you run social reference through a logical filter it's not going to much as much since as if it where ran through a social filter.

@Brandon30:

How are we judging harm? I would argue that many mental disorders are in fact maladaptive and would likely be harmful even if the majority of people had them.

I know pointless facts that make me seem knowledgeable whenever someone brings up a topic I hit them with crucial info I know someone who is interested in the fact they are speaking about knows but not many others know which makes me seem very knowledgeable.

As someone with the Actor subtype this works for me and against me. As people's expectations are raised about me and think I am an amazing addition to the team but they always freak out when they start to notice I am different or start to flake out.

For example as a friend we decide to go out but I constantly cancel last minute or jobs I constantly and absent.