[FrozenVoid]

Society medicalizes outliers, the common 'nerd' in 1980's would be labeled as 'aspie' or autistic today. The cultural status has changed drastically, since technological skill became a valued commodity but judgement of nerds as 'abnormal' remains. "Autistic traits" ascribed to people without serious mental deviations are Western culture rationalizations of intellectual withdrawal and critical vision of social circles coming from intellectuals: the social values that drive this distinction are relics of primitive societies that focused on biological performance and let intellect be merely a tool to achieve some concrete task. This obviously changed with time, but socially the ranks of 'apes in modern clothing' prevail in numbers over the intellectual minority, deciding their 'mental traits' as some troublesome deviation that has to be normalized and streamlined to 'fit in mainstream society'. It does not occur to them that society itself is pathological amalgamation of incompatible and competing cliques/interest groups that does't have any 'inherent human values' like a corporation doesn't value much from profit and market share. The idea of social skills and (enforced) social integration assumes this is the 'default' state and not culturally-bound complex of psychologically divergent behaviors that cannot be "normal" as 'asocial' behavior is right below the surface of most societies and requires arcane control mechanisms to suppress and redirect(law, armies,police, education,etc) - the 'normality' of this social structure is never questioned and people treat this "enculturation" process as some mandatory part of civilization, that their identity is based on - they cannot see their individual worth without social approval and social circles of support, the manufactured narratives and media feeds dictating what to think today. All of which are disgusting and exploitative controls that keep these 'apes in modern clothing' in line, as bread and circuses continue. Medicalizing me would not change society or improve it overall, it would just enforce another layer of cultural control - training people to treat intelligence itself as symptoms of some manufactured "spectrum" or "complex"( formally approved by Science™ as 'Broader Autism Spectrum')..as if Idiocracy was slowly seeping into real world.