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chevalier26 , 15 days ago to actuallyautistic

@actuallyautistic #actuallyautistic Do y'all know if it's an autistic trait to be super skeptical of stuff? Like, for example, my parents watch some questionable "health" people on YouTube, and when they show me a video from said people, I can tell IMMEDIATELY that they are grifters in it for money. Idk what gives it away but it's like a flashing warning sign in my brain.

I wonder if it has to do with social influence and the effects of charisma/agreeableness that NDs might not fall for.

Greenseer , 14 days ago

@chevalier26 @actuallyautistic As for what the underlying reason for the ability might be, my unhelpful answer is that I don't know (tho' I could probably speculate). Instinctively, I suspect the answer lies not in a silver lining to a disability (ie any blindness to certain social cues that may otherwise be used to deceive), but an ability in and of itself, resulting from our different way of thinking, that is intuitive

Greenseer , 14 days ago

@pathfinder @chevalier26 @actuallyautistic You lay out nicely the seeming paradox that I just alluded to in a different part of this thread.. and I see the point you make similarly

Greenseer , 14 days ago

@pathfinder @chevalier26 @actuallyautistic Yes, and in my experience, in order to learn anything I need to incorporate it into a broader coherent paradigm. Else, it just won't go in. So, rather than being able to learn an isolated factoid without understanding more, we are compelled to do much more work and contextualise in a far broader understanding of a field. This is harder but leads to appreciation of many related facts, their context, and ultimately more enduring memory

Greenseer , 14 days ago

@pathfinder @chevalier26 @actuallyautistic When I was younger (and (even) more self-assured 😉) I remember thinking (usually in response to a parent) 'yes, but you would be as black and white in your thinking if you understood (...) half as well as I do' 🤣

Greenseer , 14 days ago

@pathfinder @chevalier26 @actuallyautistic Yes. I've since matured into the understanding that 'I myself know nothing other than that others are wrong' 🤣

Greenseer , 14 days ago

@pathfinder @chevalier26 @actuallyautistic Nah, that has to be some kind of logical fallacy or something. The one knowable truth is that no one knows the truth. And most don't even know that!

eo , 1 month ago to actuallyautistic

Now I wonder if C.S. Lewis was Autistic?
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
@actuallyautistic

Greenseer , 1 month ago

@eo @actuallyautistic In answer to your question, I'm not sure. But Anthony Hopkins, who played him in Shadowlands, is. Great quote, btw!

SallyStrange , 1 month ago to bookstodon

(Some) ignorant leftbros: "Class first! No idpol!"

Scholars of right wing politics/economics: "All these right-wing thinkers are much more comfortable thinking about the blurred lines between sexual and economic politics than many thinkers on the left. And they understand that Keynesianism rests on a certain kind of sexual contract. Any challenge to this order—whether it be an escalation of wage or benefit claims, or the flight from sexual normativity, or unmarried women claiming welfare benefits—disrupts the fiscal and monetary calculus on which Keynesianism rests."

Above remark from "The Extravagances of Neoliberalism", an interview of Melinda Cooper (author of "Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance") by Benjamin Kunkel, in The Baffler.

Archived, no paywall link: https://archive.is/pLYsA#selection-929.1-929.479

Original link: https://thebaffler.com/latest/extravagances-of-neoliberalism-kunkel

#Economics #Neoliberal #neoliberalism #books @bookstodon

Greenseer , 1 month ago

@SallyStrange @bookstodon I always feel that those on the Left aho wish to reduce everything to class to the exclusion of all else care more for what is usually a very superficial dogma than manifesting actual change

Without recognition and due value for the experiences of different communities, there can be no intersectionality and without intersectionality there will be no change. As you say..the Right gets this only too well

Greenseer , 5 months ago to actuallyautistic

You know the story of the blind men & an elephant trying to decide what it is by touch? It's all about perspective & the finite ability of our senses. But I suspect we humans have an additional problem. It's as though our sight, on seeing an elephant, is designed to filter out parts of it. "What trunk? I don't see a trunk from any angle. Shit, what just stole my hat?" But, that selective vision was suited to a different, earlier, human reality, not ours

Maybe less so for @actuallyautistic 🤔

Greenseer OP , 5 months ago

@actuallyautistic ..and btw, I'm not saying some #actuallyautistic have a savant ability (the lack of selective filters doesn't automatically come with the processing power to handle extra data). No more than I'm saying, the selective view of NTs is a disability. It's about suitability for context. But perhaps the evolutionary value of autistic traits is that they allow the species a get-out clause when it reaches a place where its filters are counterproductive @actuallyautistic

26pglt , 6 months ago to random

Another person’s perceptual experience may not be the same as ours.

This is Fundamental to understanding the experience of #autistic folks. I always assumed everyone perceived the way I do & I’m just a sook who can’t cope. This is not true! I am sooo glad my partner now understands this.

Same applies to information processing & seeing patterns. I thought everyone can see what I do. They don’t. We’re ok.

https://aeon.co/essays/the-moral-imperative-to-learn-from-diverse-phenomenal-experiences

Greenseer , 6 months ago

@26pglt @actuallyautistic 'seeing through the eyes of another' is, in the literal sense, impossible. But does this mean we are resigned to attempts that are a ponderous intellectual exercise of imagination? No. Fortunately, we are given a talent that harnesses the far more capable unconscious. You mention compassion. That is the key. Compassion unleashes our greatest ability to see through many eyes. Or at least, to the greatest degree available to us. There's expansive wisdom in compassion

ChrisMayLA6 , 7 months ago to random

Hurrah... good sense breaks out in the #NorthWest as the 'Waitrose of the North', Booths begins to get rid of self-service check-outs.

Given the price premium at Booths, we (the customers) want the social interaction with staff at the checkouts, not be told to 'scan & bag'!

More importantly, not only do checkouts provide regular local employment, they are also for many semi-isolated shoppers a key bit of rare social interaction... so a welcome reverse!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-67373472

Greenseer , 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

@ChrisMayLA6 As an autistic person, I always prefer self-service. It relieves me of the effort to mask during a social interaction, and since their introduction, I have found a shopping visit far less challenging. I can certainly respect the benefit of staffed checkouts for many, but regarding them as a universal good ignores people like myself. Having options that cater for all is better #actuallyautistic @actuallyautistic

Greenseer , 7 months ago

@ChrisMayLA6 @actuallyautistic @RolloTreadway My local coop is a great illustration actually. It has 3 self-service checkouts and always has available staffed checkouts too. My impression is that overall, it's about 40/60, with about 60% preferring a staffed checkout

Greenseer , 7 months ago

@hauchvonstaub @ChrisMayLA6 @actuallyautistic @RolloTreadway I gave the benefit of the doubt and regarded the contradiction as a learning curve 😉

Greenseer , 7 months ago

@hauchvonstaub @ChrisMayLA6 @actuallyautistic @RolloTreadway Yes, I picked up on that too. I guess the learning curve has a way to go

AimeeMaroux , 8 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday! 🗡️

This coin was minted circa 206 CE, during the reign of Caracalla. The obverse depicts the laureate head of Caracalla facing right. The reverse type features #Mars, naked save for cloak hanging from his shoulder, holding a branch and spear.

@antiquidons @histodons @mythology @CoinOfNote @Greenseer
#DayOfAres #mythology #numismatics #coins #ReverseNotObverse #ancientRome #GreekRomanArt

Greenseer , 7 months ago

@AimeeMaroux @CoinOfNote @antiquidons @histodons @mythology That seems to me a really good point. Traditionally, in numismatics, they are called trophies and that makes sense when you see them placed next to a naked captive. The Romans would effectively if not officially, be making a trophy out of their arms. But, seen like this, carried by semi-nude Mars, maybe it was just his arms bundled so that he can carry them around 🤷‍♂️