Are autistic people "better" than "normal" people?

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I'm thinking about this since some years now, every now and then.
Talking GENERALLY, here, so please don't get a single case if you want to discuss about these my statements.
I would like to hear from you guys and girls your thoughts about it, and if there's any doctor around, his/her opinion is very much welcome as well.

So, generally, the normal person will usually "read" an autistic person as a d*ck, because of a bunch of factors.
First of all we don't show much of our feelings. Then, we usually speak out our thoughts and forget these can hurt people.
We don't do it wishingly, it just happens. When we think just a bit about it, we manage to avoid this behaviour, but we HAVE TO think about it before, while to other people it comes naturally. THIS is the difference.

BUT!

An autistic person is usually a coherent person that is naturally more oriented to THINGS than to PEOPLE.
Now, EXACTLY FOR THIS REASON, in the largest number of cases we don't want to hurt people at all, just because we are not much "interested" in them.
Mostly, we'll treat them as objects as well, and we expect them to react the same way: RATIONALLY.
And here comes the problem.
As normal people aren't that rational usually, exactly because they have as priority the contact with other people, they absorb from society VALUES that are completely alien to us.
They will follow a mode stream, football, soccer, basket, punk, drinking, disco, dancing, motorcycle, cowboys, Star Wars, you name it... while instead, WE don't give a damn about feeling "part of the crowd", no matter what that crowd wants to represent.
But they will also follow more dangerous "modes", such as: religion fundamentalism, military, weapons maniacs, money chasers, career, social success, power.

You see where I'm going now, right?
I'm not a doctor, but all in all, I guess I'm right when I say that, apart the small manias autistic people can have, they do NOT fall into much heavier manias where normal people fall.
And this trait makes of us people MUCH LESS DANGEROUS AND AGGRESSIVE than normal people.

Yes we can become aggressive of course, I'm not saying we are sleeping angels, but we'll usually become aggressive only when provoked, or under stressful situations. We don't PLAN or worship violence in any way. We can only use it when it happens to DEFEND ourselves. In many cases we'll accumulate a lot before exploding.
Anyway, WE DON'T EVER FOLLOW VIOLENCE CULTS OR MODES, that's what I want to say.
I may be all wrong here, but this is how it looks to me, but a doctor can have much better numbers and experiences than me, each critic (possibly with proofs and experiences) is welcome.

So final consideration: I see autistic people much more "innocent" than normal people.
We have our interests that are in most cases unrelated to power, to money, to social success, to career, just simply because that sh*t is exactly something we don't give a damn about, as it's all stuff about PEOPLE, and our interests are more oriented to THINGS.
Things like painting maybe, or counting tiles, or walking in the woods or learning to code, or writing science fiction, or thinking about the nature of the Universe...
Exactly because we don't give a damn about stupid social values where "everybody" is confronting and running, we are out of the race, and thus we are innocuous.

So, is our "race" better than the "normal" "race"?
And if "normal" humanity is so violent and envy and schizophrenic, isn't that a proof that...
HUMANITY IS ALL ILL EXCEPT THAT SMALL FRACTION OF AUTISTIC PEOPLE???

P.s.: this shouldn't even be too difficult to prove.
Placing some few tens or hundreds of AS people working together should give important medic/psychiatric results, and much probably show a "society" where people are much more quiet and in harmony than in the "normal" world.

I disagree. Autistic people aren't better than "normal" people. Some people with autism join the military and drink etc too.

There's no "we". Not every person with autism thinks the same way as you do.

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Autistics aren't any better than NTs.

As much as there's bad NTs, there's bad Autistics as well. Good ones too exists in both 'sides'.
In terms of morality, that's really up to their own upbringing and their own view.

If you mean by NTs' likely aggressiveness, that maybe one of their nature; their hardwired social motivation. (Male macho-ness, the concept of 'shame', body language)


But, social motivation and built-in rational thinking and morality are just few of the many tools of a human mind.

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No, generally autistics are not better than nts. But also nts are not better than autistics. It just doesn't work like that. Some will be better and others won't.

There's also nothing wrong with joining the military.

And of the things you mentioned that nts really like, I bet a hell of a lot of autistic people have them as special interests. I follow the nhl, it's one of my special interests. Plenty other autistics will also follow sports very obsessively and many nts do as well.

You just can't squish all autistics into one box and all nts into another box and say one is better than the other because that's like saying all black people are better than all white people or vice versa. It just doesn't work.

I don't think it's fair to both autism and those without it to compare us in a "who's better" sense - we have our strengths and our weaknesses that can benefit those around us and those that can make us self-destructive. I'm not interested in making myself out to be either superior or inferior to anyone around me either autistic or neurotypical, I simply wish to live the most productive life I possibly can despite being born autistic, and to debate a superiority complex is counter-productive to that goal and to everyone else around me.

You can only judge individuals, not groups. So my answer to your question is no.

I disagree with everything in the OP. And I did read the whole post, in fact I was glued to it because I wanted to see where it was going.

It's one of those us vs them posts. And Aspies and NTs aren't the only types of people in the population, there are lots of other neurotypes too.
And thirdly, Aspies do not see NTs as objects. I hate when people assume that. And I'm very interested in people; I enjoy gossip, I want to have friends, I like facebook, and certain people have always been special interests of mine.

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