Do you assume that autistic people are very smart?

No, I don't tend to assume a level of intelligence about anyone, especially since it's so topical. You may be quite smart about, idk, brain surgery, but a dumbass about how to take care of plants.

Since you mentioned a television character, I'm also thinking right now of Sheldon from Big Bang Theory. He knew a lot about things he liked -- trains, comics, quantum physics -- but Penny was constantly showing him up in other ways. I'd bet that there are very few people who are wholly dumb or uniquely brilliant on every field in existence.

yeah I was reading an article that how media makes high functioning autism sound alot more common than it is. It has a negative effect that instead of being accommodating now people expect more from people on the spectrum.

Well the general consensus is that they are. They are smarter than we think.

Well there's studies that correlate high IQ and Autism

But IMO they seem like it because they also indulge in certain concepts and activites which makes them more knowledgable in said areas. Tend to have a hard time communicating and their social activity can be limited, and from what I've seen they have very close connections to specific things. Kinda like Attorney Woo with dolphins

I can't speak for autistic people but this is from what I've observed. Also I went to a neurologist once and he told me I seem like I had Aspergers and it could develop more with age So take that as you'd like

I’ve learned not to assume such things about them. I have an incredible friend who is on the spectrum somewhere (not sure exactly where though), and I don’t think of her as being any more or less smart because of it.

I used to teach in a high school with a fairly large special needs cohort.

After that... no. Definitely not.

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Well... feel like a lot of people might assume it.

Especially because of media that has this autistic person who is super smart.

Well... in the popular kdrama "Extraordinary Attorney Woo", the main character Woo Youngwoo is supposed to be very smart. (I haven't watched it though)

But I have also felt as if people think autistic people are very unclever.

Like when someone uses it as an insult, I feel like they are trying to say that they are unclever. (BTW I hate it when people use that word as an insult.)

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Well... I'm autistic myself and I think I'm smart because I have been told that a lot. (I'm not trying to brag.)

but I don't think I'm an Einstein, and I also don't have savant syndrome.

Because of the thing about me thinking that most people assume that autistic people are smart, I sometimes have tried to be that "very smart" person.

And I don't want people to think that I'm unclever.

Besides if we look at it from another point of view, it really makes a lot of sense, because I did a writing with the help of https://edubirdie.com/examples/autism/ and I understood that autism is actually a disease not like many people imagine, it actually is not so drastic and depends on what kind of. For me this also was discovery, now I stay more in the internet to read various developing posts, I implore you to do this too.

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Sorry for picking up the thread, but it's very interesting to me, but how do people with autism understand that they are people with autism? I mean this could even be one of us... But on the other hand I agree that they are just as smart, even smarter than ordinary people.

No

Nah, I'm very dumb so pls ... I'm sadly not Sheldon Cooper even tho I wish I was

While some people with autism may be highly intelligent/savants they are not all that way. There's smart and dumb and everything in between, just like everyone else.

I find automatically assuming someone who is autistic is also smart tends to stereotype everyone who is autistic into o narrow category, which isn't the case when there is a wide range, with not everyone being in the same place in that range!

Humans in general tend to have wide ranges of intelligence, do they not? Would say that while assuming autistic people are all smart has better vibes than assuming all autistic people are not smart, it still has some of that uncomfortable vibe of saying "autistic people are Other/non-human" type of thing!

(This is different from saying an individual is smart/not, as it's not generalizing an entire swath of very varied people!)

Either way, I don’t assume this. Knowing that there are multiple intelligences, it’s just a matter of which one a person decides to show.

no as i know how autism works and äffects"people as i have a autistic brother (7 yrs old)

altho he is very smart. he's in a regular kids class and knows his subjects well

I've met autistic people all with differences in personalities and strengths so no