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There are a few more screenshots, just to show you how Neurotypicals often think of their autistic children. It's so messed up.
Yet another painful reminder of the ongoing holocaust involving those who have non-standard brains.
Just ask an Indigenous American if they think that the genocide of their people has slowed down even a little bit because Congress passed a few small laws. You may want to have comfortable athletic shoes on.Yet another painful reminder of the ongoing holocaust involving those who have non-standard brains.
You are allowed to discuss it as long as you don't promote harmful conspiracies about them. At least that's my recollection of the guidelines. It isn't mentioned in the main rules.I thought we weren't allowed to discuss autism and vaccines here?
Oh I see. Just there's a whole (sticky) thread dedicated to it, although I never read it really because I'm not really interested in autism and vaccines, but all I could see was the words autism and vaccines in its title so I assumed it meant don't discuss anything to do with autism and vaccines.You are allowed to discuss it as long as you don't promote harmful conspiracies about them. At least that's my recollection of the guidelines. It isn't mentioned in the main rules.
Yeah, i think you're right. That's a great insight. Relating back to the prediction vs sensed idea of the human brain, I would guess that social relationships are widely used in the brain as heuristics to avoid the need for costly reasoning. i.e. "Person with prestige that I want to be says x, so x must be true". As autistic people tend to have amplified sensory input, that might be less so for people on the spectrum as we're forced to notice sensory information more. In many situations that heuristic is a useful one, because you get to 'stand on the shoulders of giants' by leveraging other people's hard earned wisdom. Other times, less so, as with social media.This, to me, is one of the causes of this kind of behavior.
I see it on Youtube a lot, where fans will develop these parasocial relationships with their favorite content creators, sorta internally viewing them as "friends" (when of course the Youtuber barely even registers their existence), and generally that sort of connection... even if it's only one way... tends to lead towards people to agree with whatever the content creator says. Wheras if some random person, who they didnt know whatsoever, said the exact same thing, they'd have at least a chance of disagreeing with or not believing them. But their favorite content creator or influencer? That parasocial connection means they're much more willing to just follow that particular parade without really thinking about it. Because doing that fuels the feeling of that connection, while NOT doing it feels like... I dunno, betraying the friend they dont actually have.
At least, that's how I see it, from watching how people behave. I dont use Facebook or Twitter or any of that, but Youtube's comments sections display a lot of the same patterns and such that you'd get on Facebook. It's usually seen with the more erratic and exaggerated influencers, the loud ones.
And then all of the resulting zombies can roam into other sections of the site and cause trouble. Ever seen a "raid"? That's like, top tier stupid.
All the more reason why I tend to stick to just channels that are like, hobby stuff.