Scott Roebuck on the nature of how non autistic typical folk - especially in authority - belittle and bully autistic adults and others who may have challenges and disabilities but are very smart;
"The issue is that they want you to not have any positive attributes; they need you to be something to be looked down upon and/or pitied. They can't accept that you simultaneously face all these issues/challanges and still end up being better than them at something. In their minds it demeans their accomplishments (or lack there of) in life. Rather than applaud your success despite the challanges; they instead try to undermine it. Rationalizing that you are either lying about the success; or did accomplish something - but lying about the challanges faced; or they have to accept both, but just write you off as some sort of freak which "doesn't count". I have seen this over and over again. Don't let their attempts to save their own fragile egos play negatively on yours."
