As far as I am concerned, non autostic people are deffective. It must be so tiresome to always focus on 200 people's emotional state and opinions about each other. Then to focus on deforming each sentence to sound the correct way, even if it sacrefices the original message.

How could they even get through primary school with such a cognitive load is a mystery, but somehow, I don't even want to know. :ablobwhee:

@LukeAlmighty people without autism have the ability to filter sensory and cognitive input

Is simple and as it turns out, necessary to absolutely not pay attention to any of that shit whatsoever unless it is pertinent to what you were doing at any given moment

@Jackuu
Yeah, the ability to filter noise would be nice, but I get amazing attention to random detail, so a fair trade I guess?

@LukeAlmighty it’s selectively useful but can be a liability when focus is required with a lot of excess noise in the environment.

My autismal cousin is completely incapable of driving because he just can’t filter out the irrelevant shit and focus on not crashing into shit in front of him. No you don’t have to stare at and read every single street sign that you pass, no you don’t have to count every single car around you, no you don’t have to maintain exact distance between vehicles on all sides at all times

As far as I’m concerned driving is a very fluid and organic process but to him it’s this insurmountable avalanche of steps and tasks and inputs that he just doesn’t have the ability to parse properly. He can figure out all sorts of weird little minutae but for the most part he’s crippled by this

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@Jackuu
Yeah, I get it. I didn't even try getting a driver's license for that exact reason.
Can you immagine, that we had a teacher saying jokes during a university finals?

As I said, I know about this issue. But I still see it as a good trade. :ablobwhee:

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