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>On one extreme, we have people thinking they're autistic when they're actually just awkward and inexperienced in life And you know that they're "just" the lat
by coldtea 1mo ago
>On one extreme, we have people thinking they're autistic when they're actually just awkward and inexperienced in life
And you know that they're "just" the latter, and not autistic, because? They don't look like the Rain man?
- Gigachad 1mo agoI get the feeling that with a sufficiently advanced understanding of the brain we could attribute every personality trait to a biological explanation, but if someone isn't sufficiently disabled or in need of treatment, is there any benefit to doing so? The person who possibly is on the lightest side of the autism spectrum has so little in common with the other end that it feels incorrect to label them as the same condition.
- ahazred8ta 1mo ago"Did we know the mechanical affections of the particles of rhubarb, hemlock, opium, and a man, as a watchmaker does those of a watch ... we should be able to tell beforehand that rhubarb will purge, hemlock kill, and Opium make a man sleep; as well as a watchmaker can" -- John Locke (1689)