I am reminded of a study which explored morality among NT and autistic people, and concluded that NT people tended to do the right thing more often when their generosity was known, and ND people did the right thing regardless.
The conclusion of the study was that ND people were rigid.
Yeah, right
The conclusion of the study was that ND people were rigid.
Yeah, right
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Scientific data and results be damned.
So, yes, the DSM needs to go; as does the clinical status-quo requiring "diagnoses" and "treatment," if you can call them that.
I'm so tired of behaviorist pseudoscience.
It was created out of necessity since none of the recommended therapies helped with autism without extreme modification.
But a lot of us also take that abuse as motivation to fight against unjust rules.
There's such an urge to pathologize autism that even our good qualities are somehow made out to be defects.
Neurotypical is the majority.
(but I'm pretty sure if we sum up everyone ND that's a whole lot of people)
Sounds about right.
IOW, tell us something we ND's *didn't* know
I'm too old and crotchety to give much of a rat's ass what others think, for the most part.
Yes, I do know that some autistic people struggle with "low empathy" and most struggle to express empathy, but we're not sociopaths.
No matter how difficult doing the right thing might be, even if it takes us mental pain on the impacts, doing the right thing might occur..
We'll still do the right thing.
I, too, know a few spicy people, and they are.. something.
I, however, am leaning into the always learning side of my tism, to be the best version I can be for myself and ones around me :))
I've never thought of ridged as an effect of anxiety, but it does make sense!
Remember a silly one I glimpsed through once about Nuclear Families, and how "nuclear families are superior to single parent families for child growth" or something like that,
So there was not only financial bias, but demographic bias too.
Instead, the study seemed like it was used to further political rhetoric to attack single parents
Rhetoric and wording is important in research
Something's off if the conclusion can be reversed on it's head and still hold up to a peer review