R U The Smartest Person In The Room; No One Gets It?

If you often feel that you are the smartest person in the room; but no one gets you.  If you know (based on fact please, not just your personal opinion or self recommendation) that you are right. If you 'correct' people, they do not listen, and you turn out to be right; never say 'I told you so'!  You possibly have an high functioning form of autism. Do not diagnose this yourself; but seek a medical doctor to do so - notice I did not say therapist or psychologist!  Often, older people, and that is anyone over 25 years have this 'so-called' disability to contend with.  It is isolating, furstrating, lonely and almost (unless you were diagnosed as a child and had considerable interevention) may consign you to a life of poverty caused by job hopping. Relationships will be a constant battle of complaints by your partner that you are too critical and always correcting them - that is if you can find anyone to be your partner as this form of autism often comes with a personality that can be seen to be overpowering, rude, agressive and argumentive.  Indeed, at school you may have found it difficult to focus or even been bored and as a result never got the education you needed to work on your own.  A lady in her 60s contacted me recently explaining the problems she encountered which are not that different from what I have written in this blog. The problem is we know that people with this form of high-functioning autism often have high intelligence and the ability to focus at depth to the oblivion of all else which makes them ideal workers - highly resourceful, productive and worth employing. It is the 'social part' of work; the getting on with others without been critical, working in a team etc that is difficult - and that other people do not understand. This form of high-functioning autism is not really a disability; it is a different ability that once we find a way of identifying it and using it in the workplace such people will become much 'wanted' employees for the work they can do. Until then; spread the work - autism is a different ability!