Are all autistic individuals very intelligent?

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Are all autistic individuals very intelligent?

No.

Please try to avoid using "all" and "autism" in the same sentence. I know I'm not 'very intelligent' and I don't care to be either.

Sometimes I think that I'm intelligent, while other times I feel like I'm barely average.

I'm not even a high school graduate. If I hadn't been bullied constantly, put on medication that only made my anxiety worse, and was actually diagnosed with Asperger's it might have been different?

Most things I do know a lot about is stuff people don't *need* to know about.

Some people have said that I'm intelligent, but should I really have believed them? They also once said I a "bright future ahead of me". Yeahhh right.

I think that ppl on the spectrum are the same as you find in the general NT population. There are some very intelligent, some of moderate intelligence, and still others at the lower levels. I can only speak for myself as having above average intelligence.

I actually think that they all might be

On what terms exactly?


Because I'm hell sure that the majority of autistics grew up severely mismanaged and brought up wrongly, even with all the support, services and accomodations available. I won't be surprised that the majority of the world IS...

All I know is that autism itself is not for the rigid and weak minded, it's not for the faint of heart and cowards.

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MG, just to be persnickety, NT actually means people with a typically developed neurological system. There are lots of people who are not Autistic but who are also not NTs because they have neurological systems that are not typically developed. They just don't have Autism. The word for not Autistic is actually Allistic.