Do many Aspies think there are superior to NTs?

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They aren't inferior.

They do not look at life the same way. I observe a common person and they don't deep think, they don't analyse things, they just chug along and think nothing of it. But hey, in many ways their way of life is better.

Different != inferior.

I think most people are idiots. But i would not say i was superior to them.

I used to think that Aspies may not be as stupid as the average NT.
However, after reading many posts on this site i have changed my opinion. Most of the posters around here are also idiots.

But i agree, this does not equate to inferior.

You get it exactly, they talk about what they saw happen and most have no vision that anything could be any different than what they see. Most people are institutionalised and resist new ideas and change because they have had such a hard time being able to barely function with the current system.

Don't even ask them to consider a new idea or different way of doing things and cause them to have to think. They just watch TV and get out of bed the sametime everyday and go to the same job which they consider hard even after decades of doing it and come home and flop their butts back in front of the TV. Saturday they put gas in the car and buy groceries and over the weekend they march off to some event planned by other people to pretend they have a life and did something.

Just look at the school system, it looks like it did 50 years ago. same general system in place and no chance in hell it's going to change anytime soon.

I feel neither inferior nor superior to anyone.

We need them just as much as they need us.
If every one where Aspie it would be a dull , placid, introspective world , it would be a bit like Switzerland I would assume. /

Having lived in Switzerland I don't think I'd want to live in that kind of world, I like a bit of chaos in my life from time to time.

So are Aspies "Superior" no . I suspect their are a few narcissists on this site. Get over yourself people your not that special.

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You've replied to a thread that's over three years old. But you're right, we're not better than anyone else. I don't understand why some people would think they superior.

:Johnnie says:

You've replied to a thread that's over three years old

Sorry

Forgot to check the dates

Uh where were you when you saw this thread? Were you in this section checking the very old posts or did you use search and saw this?


No I don' think I am any better than NTs.

Uh where were you when you saw this thread? Were you in this section checking the very old posts or did you use search and saw this?


It was via Yahoo, I googled "Asperger's smarter than NT 's" or words to that affect . that's how I fond this link.:







www.wrongplanet.net/postp552385.html - 78k -

this could be it, a way of rationalizing / embracing differences.

Tony Attwood writes about several different coping methods children employ when recognizing they are different than others, and one of them is "god mode" which he understands as a form of denial. you can read about it here (link)

Totally agree with Kittenfluffies also. It probably is a defence.
After years of feeling stupid It feels good to think that in some ways
I do have some gifts, and I can not help wonder just how intelligent
or unintelligent the teachers I had for never picking on the dyslexia
I'am sorry but many teachers sure thought they were supperior to me.
I 'am still fairly newly dxed with dyslexia and Asd still comming to terms
with it.

I am a cat, and cats are better than people at doing cat things.

You ever caught, and killed a mole with your bare "hands"?

Any time the food bowl gets low, Reggie decides everyone else is probably hungry, so he goes out, kills a mole, and leaves it on the mat by the back door for us.

I dispose of them, so I assume he thinks we eat them, which no doubt makes him happy, and he purrs as he munches noisily on the cat food we offer in thanks. I wonder if he thinks maybe we turn moles into cat food?


Either way, I'm better at doing some people things than he is, though he IS better groomed than I am... and I'm better at doing some things like math and science than lots of people, but that just makes me a smart cat with a weird trick, doesn't it?

Sit, stay, derive this function for me, good Max!

No. But I'm quite sure a good number of NT's consider themselves superior to those with AS.

However, I will say, as many have pointed out, many of them, but certainly not all, do tend to appear to many of us as a bit...herdish.

Personally I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. Nothing in life is without a price. Everything has it's trade offs and I am more than willing to recognize the gifts and advantages of NT's.

I just find it unfortunate that they are not always so willing...or perhaps so able, to reciprocate.

Do many NTs think that they're superior to aspies?

I don't think many do, but there are some (I am not one of them).
If you get a group of people with a common interest or something similar about them, they will tend to form a mob. "Mob mentality" as they call it, human nature sadly. At school, I always noticed that people tended to hang out according to race or music taste. The Asians stuck together, the goths stuck together, the plastics stuck together and of course, aspies are going to do the same.