@drahardja Apparently the favored biologically reductive theory of #autism, especially #nonspeaking "severe autism", is that the #amygdala is too SMALL — so that we can't properly orient toward the outside world and exercise the "joint attention" upon which spoken language supposedly is critically dependent. If we (#autistics) buy into amygdala-size determinism for right-wingers, we're setting ourselves up to have it applied to US. You're damned if you do, damned if you don't. If your amygdala is too large, you're doomed to be a knuckle-dragging fascist troglodyte; if it's too small, you're doomed to be an implicitly subhuman, #mindblind, nonspeaking [insert suitable slur for the intellectually disabled]. Biological determinism stretches out the amygdala on the bed of Procrustes.

To say that I'm skeptical of ALL of this would be an understatement — although I acknowledge that biological determinist views of one's enemies are very tempting, even for leftists.

The Wikipedia article on "Nonverbal autism" is FULL of amygdala determinism — although it has been flagged for cleanup as needing better references.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonverbal_autism

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https://log.pyratebeard.net/entry/20240816-aphantastic_discovery.html

aphantastic discovery - finding out that i am "mind blind"

#aphantasia #mindblind #selfdiscovery #neuroscience #science #brain #mindseye #imagination

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https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bangalore/karnataka-teacher-whose-son-suffered-crippling-disability-in-nda-training-child-care-leave-8306906/

Exceptional apathy. Sensitivity as #mindblind as this is what those born with disabilities also live with.