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Jun 14, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I don't think non-autistic people have "better theory of mind" than autistic people do.

I think (and some studies have shown) that non-autistic people are simply absurdly confident in their assumptions of other people.

The more confident they are, often the more wrong they are.
"In another study, people were ready to decide whether an unfamiliar face should be trusted after looking at it for just 200 milliseconds. Even when given a chance to look longer, they rarely changed their mind [6]."

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
Neurotypical people are bad at reading autistic people's facial expressions -
theconversation.com/research-on-fa…
This is tangential but I found this study about "understanding good intentions" - and the scenario was someone accidentally putting poison in a drink?!

And of course the research concluded autistic people were bad at understanding social things because...
autistic people were "harsher" on the people who nearly (or did) kill another person!

"People with autism came down harder on the person whose actions caused the harm, while those without autism put more emphasis on the person's good intentions."
WHAT?!
consumer.healthday.com/cognitive-heal…
"..someone intended to put sugar in a friend's coffee, but it turned out to be poison. In another, 2 friends are kayaking in jellyfish-infested ocean waters. 1 friend had just read that the jellyfish were harmless & suggested they go for a swim..then the other was stung & died."
This is what they concluded about autistic people based on this research:

"People with high-functioning autism have difficulty understanding others' intentions, new research shows."

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I genuinely cannot believe that for so many autistic people, we have had to deal with awful sensory experiences for DECADES, and the only answer I get from neurotypical people who don't want to wear a mask, after asking multiple times, is "I don't want to" - 1/9
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Why do neurotypical people except themselves 2/9
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Trying to write this autism philosophy paper really has me thinking about autistic neurology. It seems like autistic people are simply affected more easily by things. For example, there's research showing it's hard for NTs to solve problems or talk while making eye contact.

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The really interesting part to me about ABA is that there's an assumption that autistic people are somehow more robotic and less human,

but the act of manipulating autistic children into "being more human" actually turns them into compliance robots.

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1. Why people say that
2. Why anyone would be motivated to say that
3. That they should do things without getting a reward.

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When you're an autistic person you have to take neurotypical people's comforting lines of "I'm sure it'll be fine" with a giant mountain of salt, especially when it comes to social interactions and how you'll be received. I always get friendly-tricked into believing it. 🤦
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And even worse is when I know it's the exact wrong thing to say but I am compelled to say it out of importance/activism/honesty and it goes even worse than I could have imagined.
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