One of the key features of neurotypicality's function in maintaining group consensus is its power to switch off empathy for the outcast
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A big part of why autistic ppl feel threatened in NT spaces is not sensing the signal that goes out "So-and-so is excommunicated now"
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The Black Mirror episode with the upvoting/downvoting app literalizes this really painfully
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One of my vivid memories of working in an office was the Coworker Nobody Likes being hospitalized with an injury
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When this was announced at the big meeting the autistic dude from IT "stepped in it" by asking "Is anyone going to visit her? We should go"
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And made everyone really uncomfortable by forcing them to publicly come up with rationalizations for not going
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It ended up being just him and me going and listening to her rant "All those assholes at that company can go to hell"
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Full disclosure: I didn't like her either and didn't intend to go but got guilted into it bc I'm a soft touch and was friends w the guy
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She was a loud verbally abusive Rush Limbaugh Republican but she did in fact almost die a really painful death
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And when confronted with this actually being a reason not to visit her in the hospital it was hard not to feel like an asshole
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This was in the Obama years though, maybe I would've felt less compassionate now
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