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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Somewhat like that idea in poli sci that some kinds of authoritarian government try to make sure the rules are complex enough that everybody is in violation of something all the time, so there's automatically leverage available against anyone they want to target
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The issue with respect to speech codes (I’m not a fan to be clear) is not whether people are in violation but whether they *persist* in violation. Ok, maybe your neurodivergence means you can’t read the room. But can you follow instructions?
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Hmm is it though? An average American is far more likely to be ASD or encounter someone on it than to have to parse the subtexts of a Balinese cockfight
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as someone who is in an extremely SJW autism spectrum Facebook group with 5000+ members, which I guarantee is one of many, it's a red herring
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the specific ways Tumblr communities with a ton of ASD people modified concepts that originated in hypersocialized academic settings, transformed them into something adaptable to their needs, and re-released them into public memespace is itself as ASD-driven as "muh free speech"
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Hmm. Seems like online forms of sociability have enabled ASD individuals to sort of reproduce patterns one would normally associate with highly other-regarding/sociable groups.
I don't think it's just "Online" frankly. I mean a black autistic guy may as easily be less OK with casual racism - normie "free speech" is also oriented towards the needs of sociable groups. social styles are not the sole basis of social contradictions.
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