That's the neurotypical stereotype, dating back to the first clinical descriptions: we're parrots, rote memorizing facts we don't integrate
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The idea that an observed diffusion of function, would *increase* the integration of concrete into abstract, doesn't occur to them.
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If they'd bothered to include actually autistic people in that study, they'd have found that *refraining* from integrating things distracts.
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The idea that autistic people have difficulty with abstract concepts and unifying data, comes from not talking to autistic people.
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Neurotypical: blah blah keyword blah Autistic person: *infodumps* NT: basically you're wikipedia eh
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Meanwhile, had that neurotypical hung around longer, they'd find that far from isolated rote facts, each goddamn tiniest piece is connected.
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That, with absolute certainty, that autistic person's integrated the fuck out of all that information into a structure that is distracting.
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Assembled a structure that to the person themself can seem infuriatingly hungry to absorb new information.
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The neurotypical sees the facts, the autistic person feels how much effort it is to keep them from forming a voltron inside their head
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this has basically finished convincing me of my suspicion that i have a big cluster of "invisible" AS traits so y'know thanks
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luv 2 be painfully aware that the Internet Consensus is that i am an enormous asshole for making that determination
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