what we thought we knew about autism and... whatnot
'For decades, researchers had been measuring the wrong thing. Conflating communication style differences with empathy deficits produced dramatically inflated effect sizes and an illusion of empathy impairment'
@Andii @oscarjiminy so here's another gem:
researchers interpreted autistic moral consistency as "undue concern" about ethics. Because of the enduring assumption “autism=bad,” they pathologized conscience and treated principled behavior as a symptom rather than a strength.
@grant_h @Andii @oscarjiminy What this is essentially saying, is that failures to conform to a core defining principle of conservatism (in-group must be preferred), was ”developmental failure”.
It tells more about the unmatched levels oppression practiced by western socities at large, than it does about neurodivergent people.
We judge people who fail to be good imperialists as defective.
The attitude also implies
Social conformity “normal” = morals
It seems like the very wealthy, especially the most notorious one at the moment, likes to clothe himself in autism to lay claim to specialness and characterize his outrageous behavior as autism, but the accurate description would be dark triad.
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