autism is a social disorder not an intelligence disorder
autism is an umbrella term to describe three different variants. I don't care to know anything about them, however as the older brother of someone who has mild autism, and as someone who is close friends with another person who is lightly autistic, and almost dated the sister of someone who is lightly autistic (similar to my friend I think), allow me to say this:
Autism does NOT mean that they are less intelligent, that much is true. Socially, by the disorder, all autistic people struggle, but in this day and age everyone struggles to socialize, so that's no big deal. On the other hand, depending on the severity and the type of autism, yes they can be slower intellectually. My brother is reading at a middle school level, while he's a junior in high school. All of his facts come from video games.
he also wore the fedora I threw out, but that's another story. He lacks common sense. (see: on a camping trip about 2-3 years ago, he started piling up coals next to a wooden table our dad made, requiring him to walk 250 yards each way, with hot coals on a shovel he had. Dangerous, as well as extremely against the rules in boyscouts.)
I can't explain why somebody with a social disorder would have a lower intellectual capacity, but it happens.
I wish there was a way to manually mute a BLID with the client-sided mute addon. Would be so useful for Sugar.
