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ijustwishtodie
death will be my ultimate bliss
- Oct 29, 2023
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Anybody can feel free to answer this question no matter whether you're autistic or neurotypical though I'd be more interested to hear answers from the former group
I've seen many neurotypicals and even a few autistic people claim that autism is a super power. I'm not sure why they believe this but I assume it's because of stereotypes portrayed in media where the autistic character has a hyperfixation on something that can be easily comodified (like maths or physics for example). Then the autistic person is portrayed as this awkward super genius.
I personally think that autism is far from being a super power and I say this as an autistic person. If anything, it's more like a super villain than a super power as it took everything away from me before my life even started. When I look around me at society, I notice that the majority of people are who I could have been instead of being in suffering at even the slightest thing gone wrong. Autism is incredibly debilitating for me and there's no way to cure it. It makes me incompatible with life and I'll always be incompatible with life due to this
I struggle due to it on many aspects of life. I can't socialise (never made an irl friend or acquaintance during my entire life), I never really had any interests (yes, that means no special interests too), I collapse at even the slightest bit of pressure and I get easily irritated at my general surroundings for always being too loud. There are more things that make me feel like I'm living life on hard mode due to my autism but I'm honestly just in too much pain to remember any more and list them.
I'll never understand those who say it's a super power when, for me, it's one of the worst disabilities that I can get that makes me so disconnected from the human experience
I've seen many neurotypicals and even a few autistic people claim that autism is a super power. I'm not sure why they believe this but I assume it's because of stereotypes portrayed in media where the autistic character has a hyperfixation on something that can be easily comodified (like maths or physics for example). Then the autistic person is portrayed as this awkward super genius.
I personally think that autism is far from being a super power and I say this as an autistic person. If anything, it's more like a super villain than a super power as it took everything away from me before my life even started. When I look around me at society, I notice that the majority of people are who I could have been instead of being in suffering at even the slightest thing gone wrong. Autism is incredibly debilitating for me and there's no way to cure it. It makes me incompatible with life and I'll always be incompatible with life due to this
I struggle due to it on many aspects of life. I can't socialise (never made an irl friend or acquaintance during my entire life), I never really had any interests (yes, that means no special interests too), I collapse at even the slightest bit of pressure and I get easily irritated at my general surroundings for always being too loud. There are more things that make me feel like I'm living life on hard mode due to my autism but I'm honestly just in too much pain to remember any more and list them.
I'll never understand those who say it's a super power when, for me, it's one of the worst disabilities that I can get that makes me so disconnected from the human experience