speculative hot take: what if actually everyone starts out being an animist and non-aspies are just the people who successfully learn non-animism as a social behavior
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i would feel a lot less uncertain about this one way or the other if i’d ever spent any length of time around babies 😔
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yea that sounds about right to me. attributing human characteristics to non-human agents seems pretty natural for children
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feeling attaq'd here,
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(i like to think my own tendency towards animism when left unchecked is self-aware ironic performance art, but that mindset is probably just cope hehe)
((maybe i've underflowed back around to having correct opinions by "no i don't wanna make the inanimate objects sad" so well))
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Babies are animists. They are not yet capable of "belief" in the existence of beings, but are capable of recognising the presence of them.
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The paper claims that 56% of the autistic group ar personifies vs 33% of the control group.
Are you building the take on the paper, or on your lived experience which matches the paper, or on something else?
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just raw shitposting, did not read the paper
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A lot of kids get upset - physically distressed - if you offer them a broken biscuit, even though it tastes exactly the same as an unbroken one. Adults aren’t bothered. So you could be on the right track.
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