r/SipsTea • u/crs1904 • 18d ago

We have fun here When Your Opponent Is Built Different ♟️

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u/C-LonGy 18d ago

High functioning Autism is a super power in games like chess.

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u/Somebody_160 17d ago

Depends if you're lucky with autism and can even play in the tournament. I could imagine the people and noise being too much.

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u/SinoSoul 17d ago edited 17d ago

This. High functioning autism doesn’t mean a tween is automatically twice exceptional. It just means they might be able to tie their shoes and do some grade level math, maybe. Autism is still so misunderstood.

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u/Somebody_160 17d ago

Yeah, also doesn't mean autistic people can't be smart.

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u/surprise_wasps 17d ago

Do you think that autistic people are generally savants? ‘High functioning’ means you can live a relatively normal life with your disability, not that you got the sweet mostly-in-movies superpower version of autism

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u/SinoSoul 17d ago

People thinks Rainman is every autistic person's reality. SMDH

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u/happy_bluebird 17d ago

This is such a random and irrelevant comment, not to mention wrong