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Apparently not enough karma to flag this comment. If I had enough, I'd flag it. Do you also use other disorders as terms of abuse or do you just reserve that p
by psychstudio 6y ago
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If I had enough, I'd flag it.
Do you also use other disorders as terms of abuse or do you just reserve that privilege for those who have ASD?
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoNo, don't. Even if there trolling it's actually a valid question and very much front of my mind as I wrote. No I'm not, I believe I have good theory of mind and I'm pretty empathetic, but I have wondered if those with asperger's may feel like I do in this aspect, and whether, as I said, that a certain part of my mind is missing, failed to develop, or something. Perhaps some people just aren't materialistic, and that's all. Edit: just realised, the responses here are largely about 'we' or claims about how 'other people' feel. There seems a remarkable lack of people talking about how they themselves feel when they have status symbols. Perhaps we're not that rare as a group.
- colinmhayes 6y agoI didn't mean it as abuse. It seriously is hard for me to imagine someone not understanding why people like status symbols unless they're autistic.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoOK, no problem. Now try to imagine how other people look to me with their weird valuation of things without value :)
- colinmhayes 6y agoOh I totally agree, as with seemingly most of us here, I don't value status symbols very highly. That doesn't mean I don't understand why other people do.