Thread by @KatyElphinstone

Studies show:

- greater moral fortitude
- not being influenced by group in polling situation
- non-heuristic thinking
- not being influenced by advertising
- not lying for gain

in autistics. And here is the nutty thing. They are described as deficits of 'Theory of mind'.
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Two examples: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18923049/ and jneurosci.org/content/41/8/1…

Uh. Just a thought. Are we a little scary, perhaps, for the powers-that-be?

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Theory of Mind research. From an autistic perspective.

#Autism #AutismAwareness #neuroscience #Neurodiversity

Links, for those interested:

General: autism-advantage.com/autistics-less…
Non-bias: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18923049/
Not lying for gain: jneurosci.org/content/41/8/1… (@silencepossum gave me these)
Non-conforming to a social majority: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Study showing how autistics are not much affected by advertising (apologies, I forgot to include this one):

psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-fa…

#Autism