Holy shit. There's a whole Twitter inquisition going right now against autists who use the word '#aspie' to refer to themselves. Because rigorous monitoring of our language is absolutely the most important thing we need. Extraordinary.
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This does not appear to be a troll account. There are people raging about nefarious "aspie supremacists", whose offense is apparently believing that there are different degrees of impairment.pic.twitter.com/BrbPeE3mKv
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Temple Grandin: BANISHED. What the actual fuckpic.twitter.com/HJLBDXIWxm
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Replying to @St_Rev
Looks like a bunch of aspies have gone on a full normie trip, or normies started identifying as aspie, or both. The concept of normative autism is so interesting!
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Sociopaths and borderlines get misdiagnosed as autistic sometimes, I guess. My model of autism has extreme difficulty with this kind of behavior. Maybe I don't have enough imagination.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Probably a bunch of different defects that make up the spectrum! For nerd behavior, the functional criterion seems to be attention deficit for mental states of others (= lack of empathy), attention deficit for normative expectations, or inability to act on social signals.
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Different from lack of compassion, lack of ability to form extrapersonal purpose etc., which may also be on the spectrum but define more sociopathic behavior than nerd behavior.
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Replying to @Plinz
I think the key distinction is being able to read people's emotional states and not caring/enjoying their suffering vs. caring but being unable to read them.
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Getting an emotional charge out of bullying/dominating others seems like something autists will have difficulty with, because they'll have difficulty noticing when it happens (and they aren't, generally, sadistic).
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Yes, my point is that autism is not a neurobiological category but a symptomatic one. Psychology does not seem to have converged on very comprehensive functional theories, so when we discuss the particular functional causes, we may have to deduce them ourselves.
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