Autism has got nothing to do with intelligence. You can be autistic and still be intelligent. My two eldest kids are both high functioning autistic and both have straight A's in school and in all the advanced placement programs.
Typically autism is linked with rigidity of thinking though. So for example, if you think Pogba is good, and then watch him play, and he's crap, you think he must be good and some other reason caused him to appear to be crap.
Autistic people have a hard time changing opinion. They also have a hard time dealing with change and breaking schedule. If they always eat lunch at 1pm and then one day you give it to them at noon it can be upsetting to them.
That said, the rigidity of thinking can be linked with really high achievement in what they set their mind towards. A lot of the world's most brilliant scientists are autistic. Autistic people tend to get their mind focused on one thing and stick with it, often with amazing dedication.
Autistic people tend not to have great understanding of other people, understanding their emotions, etc. That's not to mean they're jackasses, most I've met overcompensate and go way out of their way to try and make you happy because they can't interpret when they've "done enough".
Autistic people tend to get obsessed with weird things and have fixations on a narrow range of thoughts.
Some autism can be really severe, my nephew is... I think 12 now, still can't speak. It's not a lack of intelligence, he understands what you say and shows signs of being quite bright, but for whatever reason he's never tried speaking himself.
Most though, if you know anyone really stubborn who is perhaps brilliant at one thing and has a mind focused just on one thing and seems like it's difficult for them to see other sides to a problem... Chances are they're autistic.
Autistic people are quite often very intelligent, just narrowly focused.
Typically autism is linked with rigidity of thinking though. So for example, if you think Pogba is good, and then watch him play, and he's crap, you think he must be good and some other reason caused him to appear to be crap.
Autistic people have a hard time changing opinion. They also have a hard time dealing with change and breaking schedule. If they always eat lunch at 1pm and then one day you give it to them at noon it can be upsetting to them.
That said, the rigidity of thinking can be linked with really high achievement in what they set their mind towards. A lot of the world's most brilliant scientists are autistic. Autistic people tend to get their mind focused on one thing and stick with it, often with amazing dedication.
Autistic people tend not to have great understanding of other people, understanding their emotions, etc. That's not to mean they're jackasses, most I've met overcompensate and go way out of their way to try and make you happy because they can't interpret when they've "done enough".
Autistic people tend to get obsessed with weird things and have fixations on a narrow range of thoughts.
Some autism can be really severe, my nephew is... I think 12 now, still can't speak. It's not a lack of intelligence, he understands what you say and shows signs of being quite bright, but for whatever reason he's never tried speaking himself.
Most though, if you know anyone really stubborn who is perhaps brilliant at one thing and has a mind focused just on one thing and seems like it's difficult for them to see other sides to a problem... Chances are they're autistic.
Autistic people are quite often very intelligent, just narrowly focused.
