A good day or good week for an Autistic person means feeling normal to be part of the society. Anxiety and depression comes from bad days and bad weeks due to lack of connection, sympathetic communication from other people and strings of bad luck.
Anxiety and depression with Autistic people are not part of mental health disorder, but many cases they can become prevalent if prevention does not occur. In my own experience anxiety and depression comes from social exclusion, 'missing out', chain reaction of rejections and bigotry attitudes from mainstream sources (society influences). Being Autistic does not mean I am unable to do things such as playing sports, look after your grandmother, going to work, study at university and drive a car. Autism have strong intelligence, among those high functioning spectrum.
Social exclusion comes across from stigma and stereotype from the mainstream society where people make a lot of assumptions, negative excuses to social inclusion and pragmatic stereotypes unintentionally. Many Aspie guys are usually seen negatively chaotic, creepy and pervert. I have been told many times when going through high school and college.
A socially smart Autistic person will easily learn by socially responsible, caring, loving, respected and inclusive friends. Intelligence comes from independently, for instance I grew up reading maps, meteorological books, learning geography and sciences and photography. This is because my brain found time to learn and implement these interests and hobbies. It makes me happy, but also makes me happier to share these experiences with other people including friends.
An intelligent aspie like myself is something what the society needs. There are over 1 million intelligent aspie people around the world. They are easily missed out by 'mainstream social inclusion' influences because of different communication and social skills which are adapted in other way which that does not suit these aspie people. This becomes pressuring for these socially missed out aspies; this where anxiety and depression becomes impacts.
How you deal between a socially smart person and an intelligent person? Its so easy to teach social skills to an intelligent person rather than teaching intelligence to a socially smart person!
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