Feel not the same as low functioning autistics

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Since my Asperger's diagnosis about all the advice I've been given is to look online and watch videos by idiots on youtube, who I don't feel anything in common with.
I'm told I have the same condition as people who have a low IQ, don't talk to anybody, smear faeces on walls and go into rages where they're dangerous, when I don't feel anything like that and telling me I'm like that doesn't help me at all.
They tell me it's all one condition where some people have a low IQ and can never function normally in society, and others are a genius or Bill Gates, so that's confusing.
I would find it more helpful if I could have information suited to me.
Although I know people will try to force me to think I'm the same because they have been told by the 'experts' but if I know I'm not it doesn't help me.

Though I don't like the way OP is lumping all severely autistic people in one oversimplified category, I get that it may be difficult to find resources on managing mild autism or Aspergers. Try searching those terms instead of"autism." Maybe that can narrow down your results. Also some may think people on the high end of the spectrum don't need much help like the people on the lowest end, so they only post vids or blogs or whatever on that.

You opened a similar thread very recently, different title same focus:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=326585&p=7247852#p7247852

I agree with you on this one. My son has Aspergers and is very high functioning. He's very talkative, looks others in the eyes, attend regular school, etc. My good friend has a son who has classic Autism and they are nothing alike, at all. That is one of the reasons I wish they kept Aspergers as one diagnosis. He is non-verbal, runs away alot, cannot attend regular school, will not look at anyone in the eye, etc. It's such a broad range that Autism spreads across, it can be confusing.

OP - are you aware of the theory of confirmation bias?

Here's an article. Its a wee bit snarky, but you're clearly verbally intelligent enough to appreciate a little sarcasm.

https://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23 ... tion-bias/

You're displaying the classic signs of confirmation bias. But instead of looking for things about The Golden Child (from that link) you are looking for signs that you can't be autistic.

Case in point. I'm autistic, have a graduate degree, and have never once smeared my feases. Sometimes I rock... and I damn well stop it when I realized people are staring at me, because yes, I do notice, and yes, I do care. I've got a home and a business which I own and which keeps me full time employed. I'd gamble and say that I am at least as high functioning as you, if not more. (accounting for the fact that I think I'm probably way older than you and have had more time to get "functional.")

Are you willing to see that I've said this? Or will you forget it and go on looking for someone clearly less "functioning" than you?

I'm tired of the stereotype of low-functioning people "smearing feces on walls" and such. It all feels very disrespectful to the experience of actual "low-functioning" autistics.

It's not just autistic kids that smear feces on walls, some "normal" toddlers do it too. My son sure did. I tried everything I could think of to get him to stop and then I started to make him clean it up himself and he finally stopped. I don't know if he grew out of it or if my natural consequence for him worked.

They are cute and they both look alike. When I had my girl, it felt like I had my son all over again because she looked a lot like him like she was a clone of him. Pretty soon they will both start looking different from each other when puberty hits.

Seeing children playing with pooh was probably the inspiration behind (pardon the pun) the invention of Plasticine and Play Doh.

Personally I feel a far greeater affinity with the so-called low functioning autistics than I do with those at the so-called higher end of the spectrum who feel they're the next evolutionary step and superior to other mere mortals.

As for finding more specific resources and material, there is probably more stuff available online about Asperger Syndrome than there is about common or garden autism.