But a complete absence of selfishness - "giving almost everything" - isn't even contemplated in the research field https://plus.google.com/101046916407340625977/posts/NFePu8h3Vsk …
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The lack of selfishness is surprising, going against ancient evolutionary heritage, expected to be deeply ingrained in our biological nature
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Well, obviously autistic people exist. Obviously autistic traits, including this altruism has some sort of survival advantage.
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The thing is, for them, it is not acting pro socially, it is simply implementing the rule set they know consistently.
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But what about survival instinct? Caring for oneself, hard to explain that this vanishes so radically.
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It challenges the assumption that *empathetic* responding is the key to sociality and fairness, yes? cc
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Autistics lack theory of mind, but the assumption is they lack empathy. My opinion is the former is true, the latter is not.
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2/2 We have autistic social skills, autistic empathy, autistic TOM, autistic sensory systems. We aren't deficient; NTs just misunderstand
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