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On another note, I wonder, as I generally do, how they define "autism."
I wonder because my own opinion, quite seriously, is that an awful lot of what's included in "the spectrum" is actually a superior way of seeing the world and of conducting human interactions - an evolutionary gain for humanity.
I think there's no question that humans for whom the very idea of injecting unnecessary emotion into an interaction or hiding ones true motivations behind a screen of deception is entirely foreign are clearly superior to those who wallow in emotionalism and lies, and further, I think that at some level, the lying manipulators fear that that's exactly the case. At the very least, they don't know how to deal with us - they're lying and manipulating for all they're worth and we just insist on ignoring their emotionalism and rejecting their lies.
So again, as I generally do, I'm wondering how exactly these particular lying manipulators are defining "autism."
Yeah, I think claims that it's a "disability" have been a totally wrong way to look at it, but I also feel really strongly that any claims that one set of neuro/cognitive features is superior to another is inherently dangerous, because it's almost necessarily an argument for eugenics and genocide (like, why keep the inferiors around if there are any?).
Moreover, I think we can't be sure how our exactly how our whole environment (like, not just the "natural" world, also the things humans build on top of it, and the unexpected ways all the things interact with each other) is going to change, so I think our best evolutionary bet as a species is pursuing things that allow as many different kinds neuro/cognitive archetypes to flourish. Like, who knows, maybe we'll be visited by an alien species that appreciates schozophrics' ability to make unusual associations between thoughts and ideas, or maybe we'll need a worldwide truth and reconciliation commission that could benefit from some ADHD hyperfocusing and sensitivity to justice.
The ways that society has thought about and treated people on the spectrum as inferiors are completely wrong and long overdue to be discarded, but we shouldn't go from there to another supremacist mode of thinking. Pro-diversity is the way to go morally and evolutionarily.
As a sincere, long-term ideal, yes - I agree.
As an immediately gratifying self-indulgence, fuck 'em. Way WAY too much stupidity and ugliness has come at the hands of people for whom deception and emotional manipulation are the norms and sincerity and emotional honesty are aberrant weaknesses. And I want to revel in some schadenfreude at their expense.