Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna

Re:Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by pmoriarty on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @04:07PM (#19446293)

"One of the main difficulties for me is determining closeness of relationships. Like a distance metric; close relatives being closer than friends which are closer than acquaintances which in turn are closer than unknowns and enemies are very far away. I have never been able to understand how that distance metric works and therefore been unable to distinguish between friends and foes. Autism is not an evolutionary"

If someone intends to hurt you, where would you put that person on the friend or foe spectrum?

If someone intends to help you, where would you put that person on the friend or foe spectrum?

If someone likes you and you like them, where would you put that person on the friend or foe spectrum?

If you don't like someone and they don't like you, where would you put that person on the friend or foe spectrum?

How about for a person who doesn't like you and you don't like them and they intend to hurt you?

Those are the kinds of questions the answers to which would help me to determine whether someone is a friend or foe.

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Re:Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by kstenerud on Thursday March 21, 2019 @03:44AM (#19449902)

Except:

How do you know that someone intends to hurt you?

How do you know that someone intends to help you?

How do you know that someone likes you?

How do you know that someone doesn't like you?

Unless you can accurately answer those questions, you'll never know the closeness of your relationships.

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