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I’m not arguing against this, and it’s probably true that NTs can more accurately discern emotional reality from very minimal signal. But I thought the test page was talking about TOM and saying it’s low in autistics, which may be true for the majority of autistics but I think there’s a significant minority of level 1 autistics this does not apply to. Give me more than just the eyes and I can read emotions better than NTs. This doesn’t negate the test or the data but it does seem to have implications for their TOM conclusions.

lol, damn bro, you crack me up. Hojo gives no fucks.

It's a specific type of spirituality. There seems to be more than one type/approach, which is threatening to many types because their type is supposed to be the only one, kind of like Christianity, lol.

The autistic person who spent decades modeling human behavior will be miles ahead NTs in Theory of Mind. The whole premise of the test seems to be that ND people have low TOM and can't read people as well and NT people can, which is simply not true.

Yeah, I was jk. That test can't tell if someone is ND.

I agree. I don't think it's a good test.

I scored below average: 22 It seems the premise is autistic people have low Theory of Mind, but this isn't true in my experience. I have very high TOM. The test seems to measure shallow, fluent social processing, which I think is very different from TOM. Interesting idea though. Another critique is that NT people probably designed the whole test. It's basically asking "do you label this the same way NT people would label it".

You autistic af bro. 😂

I just went to Claude AI and said: "I've been told I'm neurodivergent. I don't feel any negativity about the topic and it doesn't bother me if I am, but I'd like to know if I am or not, so can you help me figure it out? What are some questions you can ask me to help figure it out? " After 3 rounds of questions and follow up questions, it said: It's kind of like a personality test in that some questions will be difficult to answer, because it's asking why or what makes you behave the way that you do, and the truthful answer isn't always our first instinct. Not a foolproof way to find out but it could be useful.

Wear black sweatpants with long white drawstrings that hang to your mid thigh. A sneaky subliminal message, lol. Like this, except longer: These are only $16 on Amazon (Southpole Mens 1570 Basic Active Fleece Jogger Sweatpants)

LMAO. This is true.

Yes, I've seen those often. Even stranger is sometimes I'd experience something like a a flashlight is being shined around the edges of the field. Do you ever see "floaters" in your visual field with your eyes opened? They're these little clear bubbles that float around and every time you try to focus on them, they move, so you can never focus on them at the center. I've wondered if this is the cause of the floaters when the eyes are closed.

You’re right.

It’s not about a label. It’s not to say “I’m ND”. That would be childish. “ND” is a blanket term pointing to a shit ton of stuff. That stuff is personal attributes that we are in negative relation to but unconscious of. Nearly all autistic people who are not aware that they are autistic have deep shadows behind their unconscious autism. They don’t even know the shadows are there and they likely never will without an explanatory framework to shine the light onto them. The point of ND, for me, was to shine a light on those shadows. It has nothing to do with labels, unless you’re an egotist. Just to say “I’m autistic” feels a little weird to me. But that’s just a label placeholder for my specific attributes which happen to be explained well by neurodivergence.

Very professional. You seeking a mod role? Lol. Cheers buddy