Autism is a trip cus there'll consistently be studies showing autistic people are on average more generous towards strangers and less likely to break their moral convictions for personal gain, but you're not allowed to acknowledge that or basically everyone is gonna jump into your mentions to tell you off for thinking autistics are better than other people.

And like, yes, if someone is actually getting a superiority complex out of it, they are wrong. Autistic people are ultimately just people, no better or worse, and having a strong sense of justice isn't necessarily helpful on its own if you're on the wrong track or simply misinformed.

But the reason this sort of thing stands out to us is because of how pathologized autism is and how absurd that becomes when you look at the evidence. Im picturing people sitting around a table brainstorming like "so, how can we spin 'generosity, creativity and strong sense of justice' into something negative?"

You knoow that if it was the other way around an autistic people where the ones who found it easier to ignore moral convictions for personal gain, we'd never hear the end of it, we'd be seen as the devil incarnate.

@Owlor reminds me of the other subversion, where autistics try to pathologize neurotypical behavior to point out how much of it is arbitrary nonsense.
@itsami It is kind of funny that autists have a reputation of "taking things literally", but when we do make our point using irony in a very deliberate way, it's everyone else who's taking it literally.
@Owlor i'm in the "undiagnosed but pretty sure/undiagnosed for financial or regulatory reasons" camp and i'd say my 'strong sense of justice' made me unnecessarily dogmatic and overly worried about what other people might think of what I do and think. now that i've put those thoughts firmly in their place i'm deeply resentful of them.

a 'strong sense of justice' isn't as good as it sounds. It takes guts to realise it's a problem rather than something to brag about. (by which i don't mean suddenly becoming okay with crimes against humanity, i mean not depriving yourself of things simply because you have this conviction that it is immoral to have/do that thing.)

I also tend to be very suspicious of anything with even a whiff of self-righteousness, because it might just be someone else with the same issue inflicting it on others.
@Owlor am someone with a 'strong sense of justice', it's overrated as hell. gets me worked up over the smallest of things.
@Owlor While it certainly adds some problems, I feel like the world would be better if everyone is autistic. Higher likelihood of folks being kind, everyone has some special interest they’d love to master for their career… and I’m slowly realizing it’d be Equestria.