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Let's not erase the unique characteristics of autism. People with autism can often achieve a higher level of mastery or understanding than most people in a specific topic, or can do so with much less effort. I'm not saying there aren't challenges, but there are definitely also benefits for some of us.
They are not erasing anything. YOU are assuming autistic people automatically get gifts. Stop it. Stop that shit right now.
Your attitude is EXACTLY what is wrong with the show, and the EXACT thing the main post is making fun of. Stop it. Even if SOME still have wonderful abilities, you are distinctly and exactly doing the wrong thing to say, "butbutbut some of us are smarter than average!".
Yea. You know who ELSE also has a chance to be smarter than average? LITERALLY EVERYBODY!!
I didn't say automatically. I said it's true for some of us. I fully acknowledge that some people with autism get absolutely shafted in terms of the cluster of personality traits and ND symptoms they develop. I'm just saying that the benefits of autism, such as they are, cannot be achieved by an NT brain. Whether or not that is "worth the cost" isn't for me to say. It depends greatly on rolls of the biological dice.
Yeah they can. I don't know how the likeliness compares, but it's well within the realm of possibility.