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@autisticbookclub @TheOtherness @Vchat20 @Pathfinder @loops @actuallyautistic This is so very true, and I'd add that "success" as it is defined in this era is rife with misconception. Autistics often elude this kind of success.

Parents (and society generally) need to realize that what I call the "autistic success model" that media and journalists and filmmakers like to push is nice as a marketable story for their audiences but not at all reflecting how autism really works with most in the real world.

And true savantism is rare, and even those who are championed as having genius or special abilities are not what they seem (just look at the real history of Elon Musk). Success as people are deceived into thinking as part of being autistic is not at all something most autistics will experience, often through no fault of their own, but is due to how the world pushes them out of the way.

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