Not knowing social cues is the most visible one to others, but there’s a lot of more internal kinds of, like, differences in thought. Stronger pattern recognition, often comes with synesthesia (having associations between senses, like a certain smell feeling like it has a colour), passionate about specific special interests, a strong sense of justice even in absence of other people observing
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Strong sensitivity to sensory stimuli - bright lights and loud sounds can be painful
isnt that just a human thing
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i sensitized myself to loud sounds by being a percussionist for years it really works wonders
You don’t come out of the womb knowing what autism is. No one innately knows the full spectrum of autism. Let’s take for granted that a person knows themselves better than anyone else, someone can still think they’re funny and everyone loves their jokes when in fact they do not think they’re funny. People regularly misevaluate themselves in either direction. We cannot trust someone’s evaluation of themselves because they’re heavily biased and skewed with regards to their own self-perception and sometimes people just don’t want to believe they’re autistic or ADHD because they feel like it’s stigmatizing or whatever. This is why we have medical professionals who generally want to help people come up with tests to evaluate people in a way that is less prone to biases and cognitive dissonance and cover a large spectrum of symptoms.
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It’s a spectrum but I think these are some of the ways it commonly manifests
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Yeah, to a degree, but autistic people tend to have more of it, a sense of what is “right” and “wrong” and a refusal to bend those principles even when it would provide personal benefit… “integrity” is too non-neutral a word for it but that’s the one I can think of… like as a kid I was causing much trouble because I refused to follow any kind of rule I didn’t understand the point of
No this is why we have medical professionals who misdiagnose people to sell them more shit
We can’t say this is literally every doctor ever
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When doctors are directly incentivized to give ppl medication, they will give it even if they dont need it
im not saying that
I am saying like the supermajority are tho
Like almost everybody has Justice and Integrity but it’s the degree to which autistic people show it (and often the ways in which it manifests) that’s different from the norm
Like I cant blame them, they need to pay off their debts, but its very real
Very strongly liking routine is another one. I don’t have it too much but for a lot of people routine is very important and it’s very unpleasant to break an ykind of routine for any reason
Then, you can’t say this is almost every doctor ever
I didnt
Sorry then I am completely misunderstanding what you meant by supermajority of doctors
means like 75%+ of doctors
