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Do you also use other disorders as terms of abuse or do you just reserve that privilege for those who have ASD?

I didn't mean it as abuse. It seriously is hard for me to imagine someone not understanding why people like status symbols unless they're autistic.

OK, no problem. Now try to imagine how other people look to me with their weird valuation of things without value :)

Oh I totally agree, as with seemingly most of us here, I don't value status symbols very highly. That doesn't mean I don't understand why other people do.

No, don't. Even if there trolling it's actually a valid question and very much front of my mind as I wrote.

No I'm not, I believe I have good theory of mind and I'm pretty empathetic, but I have wondered if those with asperger's may feel like I do in this aspect, and whether, as I said, that a certain part of my mind is missing, failed to develop, or something. Perhaps some people just aren't materialistic, and that's all.

Edit: just realised, the responses here are largely about 'we' or claims about how 'other people' feel. There seems a remarkable lack of people talking about how they themselves feel when they have status symbols. Perhaps we're not that rare as a group.