Several people have asked me where I got the notion of the hyperneurotypicals vs autism spectrum culture war on my map. IIRC this (~6 months ago) was the first thing I read about it, but it's since come up a lot quillette.com/2017/07/18/neu
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While some small minority of people may be neurologically incapable of avoiding offending people because they can’t read social signals (ok, get a doctor’s note), this mostly seems like a way for trolls to smirk as they hide behind the skirts of the disability rights movement.
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that's why the tactical shift from neurotypical to hyperneurotypical is interesting... it turns the small minority into a large minority: if you make the rules subtle and complex enough, everybody turns into a rule breaker
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The best part of Miller’s article was the examples of how it’s unclear what topics are OK for jokes and which ones are taboo. This can be incredibly hard, if not impossible, to understand for someone on the spectrum.
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Tangentially, googling “hyperneurotypical” in quotes leads into a number of refreshing rabbit (fox?) holes. Did not disappoint.
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Suspect you got the term from my thread re: that article.
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Here the new elite is made of what we might call 'hyperneurotypicals'--people with unusual gifts at conforming. 3/
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