This is a good piece but if anything it soft-pedals the problem. It's not just NDs who get abused and oppressed. http://quillette.com/2017/07/18/neurodiversity-case-free-speech/ … 1/
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Unwritten, quickly changing social codes are technologies of social control that serve to elevate and maintain the power of elites. 2/
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Here the new elite is made of what we might call 'hyperneurotypicals'--people with unusual gifts at conforming. 3/pic.twitter.com/btUS9mYxWt
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('Hyperneurotypical' is perhaps a bad term; one expects this group to have an unusual concentration of dark triad types.) 4/
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But while destroying autists may be the most obvious outcome of this new aristocratic parasitism, the damage has a long tail too. 5/
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Truly 'typical' people may be able to navigate these structures, but not as well as the gifted, not without difficulty or pain. 6/
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Also, that interp of 'gifted' is imo, a little off. I have a ton of verbal ability but i can't read social cues very well & never have.
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I mean gifted-at-being-or-playing-normie.
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I mean I specifically said "unusual gifts at conforming" in the thread
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ah ok nvm
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Yeah, I think you had a better take, is all. I am not good at conformity even if I wanted to be. I lack an interpret gene or something.
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