Originally Posted by DeeDee
In my very limited experience, the most highly qualified people in the autism world are moderately well equipped to understand giftedness; much more than the people I've encountered in the gifted world are equipped to understand autism...

Gifted AS kids often have their disabilities overlooked as PG quirks or excused as OEs by people who are too focused on their giftedness, and then they don't get the help they should.


I second the idea that gifted/AS kids' AS symptoms are frequently dismissed as gifted 'quirks' by those who aren't familiar with both, and as a parent, I can tell you that it is very, very tempting to just go with that explanation.