The thing about people who have a lot of whatever it is that we're measuring with IQ is that they quite often tend to be way _more_ wrong than those who have less of whatever it is that those points stand for.

High IQ is kind of like superglue for opinions

Not only doesn't IQ compensate for ignorance or poor methodology, it acerbates the issue.

Rationalisation is a powerful drug. Most people can convince themselves of almost everything but those with high IQ tend to be _extraordinary_ at it.

"the content warning is now longer than the post itself"

"That's how you know it's a good post"

https://autisticnotweird.com/autismsurvey/

Autistic Not Weird made a new survey!

Some highlights:

-The non-autistic control group felt overall more socially isolated than the respondents of the 2018 survey. #Actuallyautistic respondents, however, did not.

-BUT autistic people were more likely than the control group to agree with the statement that "I found the lockdown harder than most people". Overall, both groups tended to disagree or strongly disagree though.

-ca. 84% of autistic respondents feel the need to mask in front of non-autistic people. Only ca 20% feel the need to mask in front of other autistic people.

-ca 65% of diagnosed autistic people approve of self-identification/ self-diagnosis. So did 48% of non-autistic caregivers

-Among autistic people, non-autistic caregivers, and non-autistic autism professionals, identity-first language (autistic person) was preferred. The preference was strongest among autistics (ca 91%)