[immersible]

"Pete is a secondary English teacher who was diagnosed with Asperger’s in 2017 at the age of 34."

'diagnosed'....

Intelligence made into a disease. Diagnose the rest of the population with Cognitive-Autonomy Spectrum Disorder and give intelligent people the proper credit.

[sazz]

Unfortunately majority defines what is normal ;-)

[immersible]

It is normal in the real sense of normativity being the majority.

Automatic-Authority-Bowing individuals are the norm. And that is not a problem per-se. Even if it is unhelpful and annoying to more independent individuals.

What I consider counter-productive to non-normative more independent individuals, is labelling them with some derogatory acronym and turning independence of thought and intelligence into a disease or disability.

It may be a completely different way of approaching the world and everything in it. And it may not be the norm.

However, turning it into a disability, makes for large industries and worse, government, to try and 'screen' and 'treat' Independent Thinkers into oblivion.

All the while making blind rule-following appear to be the something desirable.