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servelan , to actuallyautistic
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@Kellyshenanigans @dbc3 @Zumbador @actuallyautistic Is it like cilantro, where some people love it and some hate it? I find it unpleasant

alastair87 ,

@Zumbador @PeteLittle1970 @Kellyshenanigans @servelan @dbc3 For a brief time when I had COVID vinegar (I think) took on a weird antiseptic smell, so things like tomato sauces and chutneys smelt very odd. It's gone now thankfully, but it's still useful to have had an experience that subjectively confirm that the way we sense the same things isn't the same. The reason someone hates that thing you love really could be that the experience is totally different for them.

alastair87 ,

@Zumbador @PeteLittle1970 @Kellyshenanigans @servelan @dbc3 Imagine trying to nibble on something that smells a bit like a first aid kit. I suspect there is probably vinegar or some constituent part of it that's also in the antiseptic in that, and when my nervous system was inflamed it couldn't really tell the difference between the two.

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alastair87 ,

@kacey I've seen it happen with people who can't speak not being registered to vote as those supporting them don't seem to see it as important.

autism101 , to actuallyautistic
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Interesting Monotropism questionnaire, link below.

I hope the topic gets more research.

Monotropism is a theory of autism developed by autistic people, initially by Dinah Murray and Wenn Lawson.

https://monotropism.org

“Monotropism Score: 231 / 235
Average: 4.91

This score means that you are more Monotropic than about 99% of autistic people and about 100% of allistic people.”

Questionnaire: https://dlcincluded.github.io/MQ/

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alastair87 ,

@quincy @autism101 I think we all need some stability in order to function though, if the world doesn't have predictable rules and some day to day consistency, then surely our brains can't model what might happen next. But that's literally how we function in the world, by taking an input, applying some nervous or neural process to it, and then generating some kind of output based on a combination of innate wiring and past experience.

alastair87 ,

@quincy @autism101 One interesting thing is that when people are presented with drastic and unexpected change, they will tend to follow routine. That's why they make a big deal of warning you not to take your luggage with you in a plane crash, because unfortunately what tends to happen is we just start doing what we expect to be doing - e.g. we'll start disembarking the plane as if things were perfectly normal. We struggle to change our response that quickly. Unfortunately people often die in accidents for this reason, because we can't handle the switch up that would mean we'd respond more appropriately in time.

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