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So what happens to people who are far-from-average-in-multiple-ways is that they gain some pretty unique …

So what happens to people who are far-from-average-in-multiple-ways is that they gain some pretty unique insight into the frailty and arbitrariness of social hierarchies: every now and then people notice your strong sides, and assume you’re walking around in God mode, and every so often they notice your weak side and write you off as far, far below them.

It’s confusing for everyone involved, not at least for the neurodivergent person herself. It usually takes years and years to settle on a path in life and set nuanced and reasonable expectations upon life, as one gets so wildly conflicting messages and feedback about one’s capacities.

And it’s confusing for other people. The folks who wrote off the neuroatypical person as slow, incompetent, socially awkward, weird, or whatever it may be, aren’t exactly thrilled to find out that same person hangs out with people far above themselves in social hierarchy and the neurodivergent one is apparently respected by these.

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Neuroatypical people often have a mixture of very strong and very weak sides compared to the average. This puts them in a strange category…

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