High functioning autistic people can be quiet geniuses.
Whatever they hyperfocus on, they can excel at: particularly music, computers, and science. Just don’t ask them to do customer service.
Their brains work very differently.
There is a spot for them in society and, given the right conditions, they can make great contributions.
Low functioning autistic people will always need outside care.
Yes, you said it absolutely right 😀👏🏻
I am one of them, i.e. high-functioning autistics (not geniuses, unfortunately 😉), and I can vindicate everything you’ve been saying.
Of autistics, I have just recently read a statistic which said that about 45% of us are above average intelligence ( up to supragenius) level, no more than about 25% have average intelligence, and around 30 % below average, all the way to imbecility, i.e. unratable intelligence.
Yes, and I never would have dared to touch anyone‘s property. This didn’t, unfortunately , keep me from hated and despised by practically everyone as a child (autism being unheard of in those days).
Still, I loved cars, and whenever I saw an exciting car parked anywhere, I would go over and have a look. Once, a friendly car owner would even speak to me and ask if I liked his car. I nodded enthusiastically, and told him all the technical details, although I was only ten at the time (curiously, it was also an S-class then, with no badge on the trunklid. But I was able to recognize the 6.9 liter version by the slight peculiarities on the dashboard, which no other S-class had, i.e. the switch for the hydropneumatic system, the burr walnut veneers and the speedo which went to 260 i stead of 240 km/h).
He glanced at me with admiration, and I just beamed.😀