Would my potential, and yours too, maybe have been even higher and better without it? Possibly.

Would anyone's protentional have been higher had they born into the more privileged circumstance, no doubt. My potential would have been better and life a lot easier if my father hadn't have died when I was 8. My potential would have been higher if had been able to milk the system more in favour during school years and wasn't left to make my own journey of self realisation and initial self diagnosis years after dropping out of university. So many variables. You can come up with an endless list of things that would have improved your life's potential. It's depressing and unhelpful to ask about, I believe.

And besides, who cares? It takes all sorts. Not everyone can be a normie, not everyone can be mega successful. We cannot all be the same, high potential uber humans.

I do see your point though. Most of the 'obviously' autistic people I have met, a small hand full, are in a state that seems utterly tragic and crippling to me, certainly not romantic.

In all honesty, I feel differently about Aspergers as apposed to 'other' forms of autism. Psychologist may disagree, with the changes to the DSM, but I feel pretty distinct from our more 'autistic' brethren. I WISH they had never removed the distinction. For the sake of argument, imagine that a distinction exists. That is the issue here when we're talking about perception of autism, and that is what people are mostly referring to when they think of autism and the other points made about the subject and it's modern prevalence. The more classically 'autistic' autism.

I just wish we could separate the 2 things rather then lump them together, but similarly to what I said before I suppose, If wishes were horses, beggars would ride

Would my potential, and yours too, maybe have been even higher and better without it? Possibly.

Would anyone's protentional have been higher had they born into the more privileged circumstance, no doubt. My potential would have been better and life a lot easier if my father hadn't have died when I was 8. My potential would have been higher if had been able to milk the system more in favour during school years and wasn't left to make my own journey of self realisation and initial self diagnosis years after dropping out of university. So many variables. You can come up with an endless list of things that would have improved your life's potential. It's depressing and unhelpful to ask about, I believe.

I do see your point though. Most of the 'obviously' autistic people I have met, a small hand full, are in a state that seems utterly tragic and crippling to me, certainly not romantic.

In all honesty, I feel differently about Aspergers as apposed to 'other' forms of autism. Psychologist may disagree, with the changes to the DSM, but I feel pretty distinct from our more 'autistic' brethren. I WISH they had never removed the distinction. For the sake of argument, imagine that a distinction exists. That is the issue here when we're talking about perception of autism, and that is what people are mostly referring to when they think of autism and the other points made about the subject and it's modern prevalence. The more classically 'autistic' autism.

I just wish we could separate the 2 things rather then lump them together, but similarly to what I said before I suppose, If wishes were horses, beggars would ride