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After reading this, I'm even more confused about what autism is than before. Sure, my current knowledge may be wrong, but tearing down any generalizations "if

After reading this, I'm even more confused about what autism is than before. Sure, my current knowledge may be wrong, but tearing down any generalizations "if you met one person with autism, you met one person with autism" just makes it impossible to define as a thing separate from non-autism. Yet the author tries to create generalizations later? Autistic people experience the world in a different way than non-autistic people. Okay, let's let this inconsistency slide. So to what extent? Are they trying to say that all non-autistic people perceive the world exactly the same way? Nonsense, so where's the line? From the article, there's no line: some are like this, some are the opposite. I feel the points about the form of communication are valid, but the ones describing the actual subject of communication are not helping.

xmprt 5y ago
> Autistic people experience the world in a different way than non-autistic people I don't think this is a generalization. In fact, it is the opposite of a generalization. > all non-autistic people perceive the world exactly the same way They aren't trying to say this. The first statement doesn't imply the second.
- rhn_mk1 5y ago
  > I don't think this is a generalization. In fact, it is the opposite of a generalization. Maybe "generalization" is the wrong word, but it's still a way to carve out a niche, which was previously denied. > The first statement doesn't imply the second. True, but this leaves us with "where is the line?" as the crucial but unanswered question.
AussieWog93 5y ago
>I'm even more confused about what autism is than before. There's a full list of diagnostic criteria you can look up, but in short Autistic people lack the "hardware acceleration" that neurotypicals have to assist them with social interaction (and, in the more extreme cases, language). In childhood, this usually shows itself as a deficit in theory of mind (ie, the child will assume that the other people know what they know). In adulthood, it usually means that people struggle to maintain the types of cognitive dissonance that smooths over interpersonal interactions (I suspect this is because neurotypicals run multiple systems to simultaneously process the concrete reality and socially agreed-upon "ostensible reality", whereas Autistics rely on a single system to process both). Just like any other group, this does come with shared experiences. Just like any other group, though, just because there are some shared experiences it doesn't mean everybody is the same.

xmprt 5y ago

> Autistic people experience the world in a different way than non-autistic people I don't think this is a generalization. In fact, it is the opposite of a generalization. > all non-autistic people perceive the world exactly the same way They aren't trying to say this. The first statement doesn't imply the second.

rhn_mk1 5y ago
> I don't think this is a generalization. In fact, it is the opposite of a generalization. Maybe "generalization" is the wrong word, but it's still a way to carve out a niche, which was previously denied. > The first statement doesn't imply the second. True, but this leaves us with "where is the line?" as the crucial but unanswered question.

AussieWog93 5y ago

>I'm even more confused about what autism is than before. There's a full list of diagnostic criteria you can look up, but in short Autistic people lack the "hardware acceleration" that neurotypicals have to assist them with social interaction (and, in the more extreme cases, language). In childhood, this usually shows itself as a deficit in theory of mind (ie, the child will assume that the other people know what they know). In adulthood, it usually means that people struggle to maintain the types of cognitive dissonance that smooths over interpersonal interactions (I suspect this is because neurotypicals run multiple systems to simultaneously process the concrete reality and socially agreed-upon "ostensible reality", whereas Autistics rely on a single system to process both). Just like any other group, this does come with shared experiences. Just like any other group, though, just because there are some shared experiences it doesn't mean everybody is the same.