AmeliaSo one of the things that has always confused and frustrated me about the autistic experience (even long before I knew I am autistic!) is the way allistic people feel, to me, like they are constantly over-simplifying everything.
The past week or so, I've been kicking around a hypothesis with my partner (they are also autistic), and I think together we've stumbled onto something big.
We're beginning to suspect that allistic brains do this as a protection mechanism, automatically and unconsciously, much like our heartbeats. It's a way to avoid overwhelm.
Just like we might rely on noise cancelling headphones to not get overwhelmed by sounds, I think allistic brains naturally reduce ideas to simpler forms to prevent getting overwhelmed by details and complexity.
(This is really a much bigger thing than fits into a single post, but that's a good preview of the larger cascade of understanding we've been unleashing lately.)
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