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The super-crip mythology supports this narrative of people with disabilities, in this case people with autism, as only socially valuable if they are exceptionally intelligent either in a mathematical, logic driven way, or in some cases, this is applied to people with disabilities’ exceptional artistic talents. Crake and the other students frame themselves very obviously not in terms of disability, but in terms of giftedness, but Jimmy as an outsider, as “Jimmy, the neurotypical” (Atwood 203) sees their “demi-autistic” characteristics in terms of “social ineptitude – these were not your sharp dressers” (Atwood 193-94). Jimmy continues by states that in Watson-Crick culture, there is “a high tolerance for mildly deviant public behavior” (Atwood 193-94). But, as Jimmy recognizes this behavior may see socially unacceptable to him, it is however acceptable in this particular community or culture which values a specific kind of intelligence above everything else. And again, this example reinforces the socially constructive nature of disability, how disability is perceived, in this case especially, as very much determined upon a culture’s views on acceptable or normal intellectual and physical abilities.