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I'm an officially diagnosed Autistic and a self diagnosed Narcissist. AMA (self.autism)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Persen to c/autism

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This was suggested to me by @[email protected].

I'm a late teen (17). I got an autism diagnosis (which still causes more problems, than good) when I was three years old.
You already know a lot about autism (since most of you are autistic), so you don't need any explanation (even if it's a spectrum).
Now let's explain why I think I'm a narcissist: When I entered high school a few years ago, I started feeling superior to my schoolmates. At first I felt, this was justified, as I have way better grades than my schoolmates (and had a way higher admission score (or whatever it's called) than others), but later I realized, it was unjustified, as even if I'm smarter, than everyone, I have other challenges (executive function, procrastination of anything related to communication). That wouldn't be anything weird, but even after that realization, I just can't grasp the fact my schoolmates aren't stupid and useless. AMA

PS:I know it's a way too long post and doesn't belong here, but it is what it is.

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[–] sunbrrnslapper 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I am not on the spectrum (I follow the community because I have 2 kids on the spectrum). I did, however, go to high school and also thought I was smarter than everyone else. I was probably smarter than some people. But as I've grown up, my perspective has shifted: (1) smarts are genetic, like being pretty, and both are like winning the genetic lottery. In contrast, people who work hard have earned it. (2) Being academically gifted does not always translate into success later in life. EQ, hard work and luck also play into it. Anywho, I thought I would pass that along because I'm not so sure you are a narcissist, but maybe just haven't had as much experience. Best of luck to you!

[–] oracleunity 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To add to this, here is a rough explanation of why "average" people still exist.

If you take every job in the world, and group them up, you're gonna get significantly more maintenance type jobs, time-gated jobs, tetris type jobs, and basically every job that requires about 2 brain cells to perform perfectly, than any job that actually requires critical thinking.

So we can either take you, the smartest ~~meat popsicle~~ man on the planet, and make you stand there and hold a stop sign in the middle of traffic in 100F/38C weather for 10 hours straight six days a week,

we can give that job to somebody else and have you design highway interchanges.

Take your pick.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, humans are meat popsicles and our skin is the ziplock bag containing the meat (according to some tumblr comment)

[–] oracleunity 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You've uhh..never watched The Fifth Element (1997) have you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I did actually, not in english though. And it's been a while since then

[–] Persen 1 points 4 months ago

That might be true, as I haven't manipulated a lot of people (I just do it if I feel in danger). I don't fake being victimized to manipulate people, I actually feel like a victim in multiple situations.