Normies implicitly operate in deep abstraction. They think "how would doing this appear to the sorts of people I want to think of me as X"
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Autists are actually less abstract. They think only about the action & are entirely unable to imagine their reflection in this sense.
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This is why HBD etc is abhorred, because it signals that you are the sort who would think "rude things", that yr improper, impolite.
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Thinking "What is the Truth?" is less abstract than "What is the received consensus of the class of decent respectable people?"
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ime autists tend to understand why wrongthink gets a harsh reaction whereas normies don't understand why they are so repulsed
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normies don't operate on the level of indirection they do consciously, it is intuitive and hazy to them
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like the fish who asks "what's water?"
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Yes, but I would say austists understand it the way a dog understands that begging at the table = hit on nose.
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I don't feel in my heart any understanding of their impulses but I can generally model their behavior well enough to predict
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this is maybe less fulfilling but more useful I think
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