Is Autism a superpower?
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No, absolutely not, it's fucking hell on earth and a shit awful way to live. Anyone who tries to paint any form of autism in rainbows and positivity should be curb stomped with extreme prejudice.
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Not all retards are autistic
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It’s a curse created by God to stop us from reaching our true potential. Think the Tower of Babel but more autistic.
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Depending on severity, it can be anything from "A pain in the ass" to "A horrific nightmare".
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The point of existing as a human (from a biological POV) is to pass on your genes.
Autism is a barrier to reproduction, especially for men. It increases a person’s chance of being a genetic dead end. You can’t have superpowers when you’re failing on the basics.
Edit because I’m retarded: Not that a person has to reproduce to be considered a success, they don’t. But if autistic behaviors were so great, nature would find a way to pass it on. Instead nature makes it harder for them to reproduce.
Autism is a barrier to reproduction, especially for men. It increases a person’s chance of being a genetic dead end. You can’t have superpowers when you’re failing on the basics.
Edit because I’m retarded: Not that a person has to reproduce to be considered a success, they don’t. But if autistic behaviors were so great, nature would find a way to pass it on. Instead nature makes it harder for them to reproduce.
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I wouldn't call it a superpower, it's more like dumping almost all your stat points on "hyperfocus" and "intelligence" and neglecting other stats like "Social awareness". Ain't your fault you got a poor roll, but don't delude yourself.
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No. I was diagnosed with aspergers (now called high-functioning autism) and ADHD as a kid. I had a fixation on dinosaurs until probably high school and would constantly regurgitate the hottest news on feathered raptors, pedantic taxonomy that implies birds are reptiles and humans are fish, that kind of thing. I was argumentative and disobeyed instructions constantly, and could not shut the fuck up, ever.
I was absolutely insufferable and I had very few friends for most of my formative years. It's not a superpower, it's just like your brain latches onto some random topic that gives you dopamine, and dumps all of its resources into obsessively researching and cataloguing all possible information about it. I had to manually learn social rules and body language, I never fit in socially, ever, I got overwhelmed easily and could not handle change well, or emotionally regulate, and eye contact was hard for me to sustain up until my late teens/early 20s. Being autistic made me one weird motherfucker, even though my case was relatively mild and manageable compared to some exceptional individuals on here.
It's just a developmental disability and it's weird that it's fetishised so much in (current year).
I was absolutely insufferable and I had very few friends for most of my formative years. It's not a superpower, it's just like your brain latches onto some random topic that gives you dopamine, and dumps all of its resources into obsessively researching and cataloguing all possible information about it. I had to manually learn social rules and body language, I never fit in socially, ever, I got overwhelmed easily and could not handle change well, or emotionally regulate, and eye contact was hard for me to sustain up until my late teens/early 20s. Being autistic made me one weird motherfucker, even though my case was relatively mild and manageable compared to some exceptional individuals on here.
It's just a developmental disability and it's weird that it's fetishised so much in (current year).
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fetishized current year autim with the emphasis on"trimming" and genetic predispositon to liking things shit? Fuck no.
Old school Sperglord autism? possibly because if you get the proper social cue shit taught to a sperglord type autist kid you end up with someone who either overthinks social shit and turns into a manipulative fucker, or someone who just does not give a fuck at all about appeasing the mob and will usually never bring up the fact they have autism. With ill intent in mind, You could feasibly breed a hitler 2 into existence via autism despite the fact hitler had something that wasn't autism.
EDIT: FUCK IT WAS A NECRO THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR BEING AWAKE 2 DAYS.
Old school Sperglord autism? possibly because if you get the proper social cue shit taught to a sperglord type autist kid you end up with someone who either overthinks social shit and turns into a manipulative fucker, or someone who just does not give a fuck at all about appeasing the mob and will usually never bring up the fact they have autism. With ill intent in mind, You could feasibly breed a hitler 2 into existence via autism despite the fact hitler had something that wasn't autism.
EDIT: FUCK IT WAS A NECRO THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR BEING AWAKE 2 DAYS.
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wew nice word salad, please go to sleep.
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Hypervigilence has always seemed like a superpower to me its like anxiety powered Sharingan
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If posting cringe on the internet is a superpower then I guess so.
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While some autists are capable of genius-level work in some capacities (i.e. the so-called idiot savants), they are generally crippled when outside the scope of the thing(s) they are good at.
Most of the ones that seem to be some sort of miracle workers are generally high functioning, but are usually haunted by things like social awkwardness, lack of empathy, OCD, or other issues that are not obvious when you see them in their element.
It's likely that many geniuses throughout history were on the spectrum, but that doesn't mean they had anything resembling a normal, healthy life. Look at Mozart- unmistakable musical genius, but completely unable to manage his life, family and finances- he only got by because he never stopped pounding out high quality marketable music at a blinding pace- he also seemed to descend into drug and alcohol abuse, and eventually died a pauper, despite producing the equivalent of every John WIlliams film score ever written several times over without the help of modern technology. Jamie Hyneman (from the Mythbusters) is a wizard at building things and coming up with weird contraptions to solve even weirder problems- but he's very anti-social and hated being on camera (hence why he brought in the very extroverted Adam Savage to make their hit show work. Nikola Tesla was a real-life mad scientist working with ideas way ahead of his time, some of which we still have not caught up with- but he was also completely unable to manage his personal life and finances, and ended up getting railroaded into poverty by the business-savvy Thomas Edison, who was probably only half the inventor that Tesla was (and that's not a dig on Edison, but a compliment to Tesla). Many of today's wealthiest businessmen are probably on the spectrum- but are typically completely obsessive workaholics with almost no human empathy who are good at being sharks in the business world, but basically have NO other life. (Look at Bill Gates, now that he's retired all he can do is obsess over making people eat artificial meat, and try to convince people to reduce the population like some supervillain)
OK so TL;DR - it may seem like a superpower in some cases, but there's a cost, often a heavy one. Autism that becomes genius generally equates to a difficult , unhappy, and completely abnormal life. At best, these are people who can succeed wildly at a very limited focus of things, at the expense of everything else that makes up normality.
Most of the ones that seem to be some sort of miracle workers are generally high functioning, but are usually haunted by things like social awkwardness, lack of empathy, OCD, or other issues that are not obvious when you see them in their element.
It's likely that many geniuses throughout history were on the spectrum, but that doesn't mean they had anything resembling a normal, healthy life. Look at Mozart- unmistakable musical genius, but completely unable to manage his life, family and finances- he only got by because he never stopped pounding out high quality marketable music at a blinding pace- he also seemed to descend into drug and alcohol abuse, and eventually died a pauper, despite producing the equivalent of every John WIlliams film score ever written several times over without the help of modern technology. Jamie Hyneman (from the Mythbusters) is a wizard at building things and coming up with weird contraptions to solve even weirder problems- but he's very anti-social and hated being on camera (hence why he brought in the very extroverted Adam Savage to make their hit show work. Nikola Tesla was a real-life mad scientist working with ideas way ahead of his time, some of which we still have not caught up with- but he was also completely unable to manage his personal life and finances, and ended up getting railroaded into poverty by the business-savvy Thomas Edison, who was probably only half the inventor that Tesla was (and that's not a dig on Edison, but a compliment to Tesla). Many of today's wealthiest businessmen are probably on the spectrum- but are typically completely obsessive workaholics with almost no human empathy who are good at being sharks in the business world, but basically have NO other life. (Look at Bill Gates, now that he's retired all he can do is obsess over making people eat artificial meat, and try to convince people to reduce the population like some supervillain)
OK so TL;DR - it may seem like a superpower in some cases, but there's a cost, often a heavy one. Autism that becomes genius generally equates to a difficult , unhappy, and completely abnormal life. At best, these are people who can succeed wildly at a very limited focus of things, at the expense of everything else that makes up normality.
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