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lisatomic
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Re: "It doesn't matter if you're autistic or not, you're still you either way", etc Say you really struggled to read books, and everyone else seemed to find it easy. It would matter *quite a lot* to know if you were dyslexic vs. just bad/lazy and needed to practice harder
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Oof this uncertainty has actually been a pain point for me. I get 36 on that test fwiw. But talked to a psychiatrist once and he said "everything you're saying sounds like autism, but you are too good of a communicator" so 🤷‍♀️
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hmm i think there's in an important sense no such thing as "just bad/lazy" and that you can come to that conclusion without needing an explicit category for whatever the thing it is that you are instead. obviously it's a lot easier if you do have an explicit category
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especially if it's a legible category you can use to interface with the medical establishment and obtain services etc. but like:
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i keep trying to write about this and it keeps not quite being fully cooked, but just like... something wild happens when you use an ontology that was designed for the needs of a *bureaucracy* in order to *understand and explain yourself to yourself and others*
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This is a good point! And yeah, my goals are more the second one-- to understand and explain myself. I don't currently have much interest in interfacing with medical establishment, as I think it's unlikely I'll find whatever I need there.
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@QiaochuYuan
that's close to my view. i think "laziness" and "willpower" are weirdly shaped concepts and i don't really use them in my own thinking. from a systemic coercion pov you could say "laziness" really means "unwillingness to submit to the demands of the system"
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