AS superiority? NT superiority?

We've all heard the attitudes that some people display toward us. I'm not going to repeat them here. We've all heard them too many times already. What they amount to, however, is that we are somehow lesser people than people who aren't autistic.

On one of the forums that I frequent , there is a pervasive attitude that non-autistic people are inferior. Words such as "illogical", "shallow", "liars", "incapable of true feeling" (now, where have I heard THAT one before?).

All this talk about who is superior- it is bullshit. None of us are superior. We are different from each other, that's all. "Different" does not mean better. It does not mean worse. It just means "not the same".
There are good NTs. There are good autistics. There are bad NTs. There are bad autistics. I should not have to state something so obvious, but the fact is that there are far too many people who think that a difference in neurology somehow equates to a moral difference.

Part of the cause of this is, I think, that because we are looking at each other from the outside. When you are part of a group, it makes it harder to step back and see the flaws that tend to be common in that group. When you are not, it makes it easier to see their flaws. It makes it easier to comment on them, because it is not "people like you" who you are criticising as somehow less than human.

This needs to stop. We are all human. We are NOT made superior or inferior because of the way our brains are wired.