Alexis Bushnell

Am I the weird one for not needing to experience stuff or imagine stuff to believe it's bad or exists?
Is this an Autistic thing? Or just a me thing?

Context; my uni book gave some exercises to help understand what it might be like to lose language to help people understand.
Why? I know losing language in any manner would be hard without imagining it.

I find this a lot with stuff generally too, especially veganism. I have never seen or read any animal suffering stuff.

#ActuallyAutistic

Mar 24 at 9:15amWeb
Show threadIvysRequiemMar 24
@alexisbushnell some people need to be taught empathy I guess...
Show threadJohn William David ThomsonMar 24

@IvysRequiem @alexisbushnell obviously not the neurotypicals though... they're the ones with empathy since empathy is a normal thing.</s>

Reminded me that stuff like "a strong sense of justice" is a symptom of Autism and/or ADHD (can't remember).

Show threadAlexis BushnellMar 24
@jwdt @IvysRequiem oh god don't get me started on that! lol!
The fact they did a whole study that found Autists will do the right thing even when nobody is looking and pitched that as a fault...
Show threadJohn William David ThomsonMar 24
@alexisbushnell @IvysRequiem obviously, what sort of freak would do the right thing *just* because it's the right thing to do? Without anyone to virtue signal to? All that's going to do is make the world a bit better, it's not going to improve your personal position in the social hierarchy so you'd have to be crazy to waste your energy doing the right thing!
Show threadHugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷Mar 24
@alexisbushnell I can imagine, so I think it is Autistic.
Show threadKevin DavyMar 24
@Tooden @alexisbushnell
Agreed. Some things are just obviously right and some wrong.
Show threadMary StarbuckMar 24
@alexisbushnell You are not weird according to me. It must be hard to get these messages about what is weird.
Show threadMàrtainn D Mar 24
@alexisbushnell I would suggest that the author of the book was needing to fill some pages and added superfluous exercises to bulk it out.
Show threadAlexis BushnellMar 24
@ginger_tosser I don't see why it would be that, it's a uni textbook, and this one is smaller than book 1 but bigger than the other module's book 2 so there doesn't seem to have been a requirement for them to have been of a set length.