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I am an autism whisperer: I understand human socialization effortlessly but I also have a literal mind so neurodivergent people love me because I can tend to articulate the principle they're missing.
Some autism chauvinists like @sirpingsalot theorize that if they could get a bunch of autists in one place and convince them of something they'd be I dunno super powerful acting in concert or something. What they don't get is that this is also just true of normal people. The act of convincing a person is the same whether or not they're neurodivergent. Logical arguments work on people who are logical. Emotional arguments work on people who are emotional.
So it's batshit deluded to think that neurodivergent effluvia online is somehow superior to normie shit. Mostly y'all need a place to violate the taboos and violating the taboos is good practice but don't let that delude you into thinking you're powerful instead of just crippling your message for normies. (Don't fricking complain about being misunderstood ever. The message received is the one that matters, not what you think you said.)
I'm on board for: this is neurodiversity, brilliant and exciting differences between people. Neurodivergent chauvinism is fricked up though. Like people who are missing a sense claiming to see more than others. It falls down pretty hard.
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Your fallacy is assuming that autists are more logical than other people. This is false. Autists are just worse at seeing the illogical component of their beliefs. They place high value on deciding things for logical reasons, even though they in fact they make decisions emotionally like everyone else. The advantage is that they can be more easily deluded, if you can convince them of something emotionally, while making them believe they came up with it logically. This doesn't work for a normal person, because normies know their beliefs are emotional, so they closely guard their emotions to avoid being mislead. Only an autist thinks they can get into arguments and always come out on top, because "knowledge brings freedom".
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Interesting. I can see what you mean. TBH I don't actually have a lot of direct experience with autists just a few where I was explicitly thanked at length for my insight.
That and the frickers at TheMotte.
At Themotte I saw a lot of this.
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