Are Autistics just really really smart?

[CaptainWacky]

So smart that they see completely through all life's lies and the fakery and the pointlessness of it all so they don't interact at all? Would the smartest man alive actually be catotonic? CAN INTELLIGENCE BE MEASURED IN PROPORTION TO DISINTEREST?

No, probably not.

 

[Yub]

You may be on to something there Wacky. I'd discuss this more but I've lost interest

 

[CaptainWacky]

I like the way you think (on a level so advanced that it can't even be called "thinking" at all!)

 

[Laker_Girl]

Put that on an Autism messege board. Parents of Autistic children will grab onto that like a drowning man to a life preserver. Maybe they'll stop perpetuating the life threatening myth that childhood vaccines make Autistic children.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Well, I was vaccinated and I have Asperger's. COINCIDENCE, I THINK NOT...then again, I also ate glue.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Then again, I was vaccinated and don't have autism. So it's inconclusive.

Did you see that program about the maths geniuses? A couple of them had Aspergers. One was an egotistical windbag and the other was absolutely adorable(even if his teeth were really screwed up and he had terrible facial hair).

 

[CaptainWacky]

No.

That's another annoying thing, all those fucking geniuses with some kind of autism spectrum disorder, so it's thought that EVERYONE with some kind of autism spectrum disorder is a genius in some area.

But they're really not.

 

[FBI parte due]

I think it's more of a concentration thing, like you sit down to think and you're not distracted by things like "WOW TIME TO SMOKE DRUGS WITH MY 432 BEST BUDS" and "OMG TIME TO HAVE INTENSE SEX WITH MY PHYSICALLY PERFECT GIRLFRIEND."

 

[CaptainWacky]

I end up concentrating on concentrating so much that I don't concentrate.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Savant is one of the gayest words ever.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I wish I did have a super power though.

 

[FBI parte due]

We all have the super power of being able to prevent forest fires.

Except for FLAMING MAN, and then even he can FLAME people who are planning to go out and set fire to the forest.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Yeah but he has to follow them around for a few days beforehand just to make sure they're really going to flame the forest, and in that time he often becomes sympathetic to their cause (a kind of Stockholm syndrome, but much quick!) and ends up helping them flame the forest and only afterwards does he end up saying "OH GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE!?" then flames the hooker he's sleeping with out of grief the bastard.