(full disclosure: I also was once a child) you write that your experience as an autistic is that you have "more of a thing for justice" than might be expected

(full disclosure: I also was once a child) you write that your experience as an autistic is that you have "more of a thing for justice" than might be expected from the general population. I read that as an aspect of autism is to serve as a magnifying lens on on particular aspect of what it means to be human. So, the trauma you report from being punished might have been felt stronger by you than it would have by someone with a different mental makeup, but that doesn't mean that the other person didn't feel it. Conclusion: Your hightened awareness allows you to make explicit something which to others is just vaguely troubling. Thus your view is closer to the universal human truth than those who deny it.