Having Autism Doesn't Make Me Superhuman

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The Mighty

I feel like a Superman everyday. But a Superman living in a world made of Kryptonite much of the time.

It is definitely a fair point. Intellectual and physical gifts don't have to come with AS, although they can. No assumptions. Mr. Rogers is one of the best people in the world because of one of his messages.

I accept you exactly as you are, neighbor!

I don't get this mentality either, I take a dump in the bathroom just like everyone else.

Anyone who thinks having autism makes one superhuman clearly hasn't met me. The only opinions I hear about me in that regard are that I'm lazy, not trying hard enough, or don't care - pretty much the opposite. I can see how it would get annoying, but I'd rather be seen as being extraordinary for doing everyday things because I have autism than be constantly told my best isn't good enough because people can't (or just don't want to) understand my limitations.

Granted, I am not one of the ones who can drive, work, or live on their own.

No friends. Never worked. Need support to lead some semblance of a healthily independent life . Yes, I'm certainly superhuman.

I'm reading my yearbook comments. Most everyone was fairly certain I would do amazing things... once I "believed" in myself. Have I, will I? My superpower is/will be Authenticity.

Yeah. When I'm engaging in self harm because I've ostracized my dormmates yet again, when I go days barely saying a word because there's no one to speak to, when I have students and professors whisper about me behind my back...being told to love being autistic is just bulls***.

I don't want to be told that I need a cure, either. I want to love myself. I want to be myself. But currently, I'm lonely and facing extreme difficulty because I was born into a world that did not want me. Pretty words about special abilities don't do anything.

The conversation should be about accepting us for who we are. No one should be told that they will only be accepted on the condition that they prove superhuman. Though I suspect many of us have displayed incredible fortitude and bravery to live in a world that can be so (unintentionally) cruel to us.

We are not superhuman.

We are frequently dehumanised though.

There needs to be more awareness and opportunities for autistic people.

Given the prev comments though its clear that "acceptance" works both ways. Society needs to be kinder to those with all mental health issues, but we also need to accept that given our negative symptoms its hardly suprising that society, parents, medical community will try and change us.

I don't agree well with the superpower part.
Not at this lifetime, and as far as I've observed with how people and the society at large handles it. That even includes the majority of autistic individuals themselves.


What I can agree with autism as humanity's future, one way or another...
Be it the best future of hopes and dreams, gone-wrong utopia turned dystopia, human race ascension or the apocalyptic kinds of human extinction...

Unless society learns the lesson the difference between 'normal' from 'human', there's the superhuman and the inhuman stereotypes...
Doesn't matter. Autism will always accompany humanity and autism is in future as much as it is in the past.

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We are not superhuman; and we are not subhuman.

I am sure MANY lists have been compiled here that would meet your requirements. Some of them probably should have been made "stickies."