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Originally Posted by 57 On Red
The writer Nick Hornby says people always ask him what his autistic son is 'good at', and he has to say, 'He's not good at anything,' because most autistic people aren't. 'Savants' like the artist Stephen Wiltshire are very rare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wiltshire
But autistic people do tend to be honest because of their literal-mindedness. They have a horror of lying because lying takes away your grip on reality. So an autistic person wouldn't ever, like wil, deny posting something that they had in fact posted and just bluff it and brazen it out.
An autistic person could tell you there isn't a stereotypical person on the autism spectrum though. Or someone who sits in a waiting room of an autism clinic 4 hours a week can also report. I understand people are actually a challenge to understand. They can be like a puzzle which can look complete while pieces are out of view. It can help to recognize literal mindedness, usually taking an anecdote as literal totality of a subject like autism can end up with an incomplete understanding.
Ironically, one of the stupidest insults a person can use is autistic- because it applies to diverse range of peoples it is functionally meaningless. Would be totally funny, but stigma is involved. Even an autistic person can understand stigma. Maybe even savants about humans can manage it.