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Re:Empirical failures of the claim that autistic people lack... by a_cardboard_box on Sunday February 04, 2024 @03:02PM (#39253806)
High-functioning autistic people would meet the 2nd definition when trying to predict what neurotypical people would think. But they're also probably better at predicting what other high-functioning autists would think than neurotypical people are. It's just easier to imagine what someone might think if they think like you.
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Re:Empirical failures of the claim that autistic people lack... by jimberlage on Sunday February 04, 2024 @04:17PM (#39254585)
A part of all psychology diagnoses is that it must both match a definition and negatively impact someone's life. So if you never had to care about what neurotypical people think, then it wouldn't rise to the level of a problem and there's no diagnosis.

You see people care about this stuff because they go to their therapist and say, "boy there are a lot of neurotypical people I have to predict, and being slightly better at reading autistic people doesn't make up for it."

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