Carl-Richard

I was about to use that very word in the very last post I made (and I haven't taken the test in forever ).

You know when somebody says something ironic or off the wall or slightly off-putting and you like peel your eyes with this creepy and even smirky expression? That's more around the ballpark of what I intended it to mean.

Haaah good one.

In the model above, the autistic person would have to construct or learn concrete rules and then make inferences based on those. For non-autistic people, the inference machinery is built-in. The test and the science around it is based on averages, as science generally is. On average, the ND/autistic strategy seems to be less efficient/effective. If you want to make a scientific study on the extremes, you can do that. Or if you consider yourself a high TOM ND, you can take the test and show us that it's wrong (score higher than @Natasha Tori Maru).

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@Natasha Tori Maru There is this model that places autism and psychosis on a continuum. Autism in this model is more concrete, less able to make inferences, while psychosis is abstract and makes loose inferences. And this inference-making process is thought to be grounded in picking up on social cues and using them to derive conclusions about a person's internal state (that's where it comes from, and it makes sense phylogenetically, as the cortex grows out of the limbic system). It's not necessarily that the autistic person is blind to the facial expressions, but it's that their brain doesn't connect it to an inference about an internal state. In other words, according to the model, you're psychotic 🙂 Like me 😀 Here's the article: https://cnl.psy.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Thakkar-Matthews-Park-2008-A-complete-theory-of-psychosis.pdf

Oneness has nothing to do with perception, sounds, colors, shapes, objects, patterns, sensations, feelings.

Goatsee

@Joshe Take the eye test 👀

Post videos like this, just absolute low brow factually (and ethically) dubious slop from someone with "Dr" in front of their name:

Rillies trolled you with subtle sarcasm, not compatible for certain neurodivergents. I didn't ask you to stop making posts. I asked you to stop making threads that fill up the sub-forum (for now). I usually challenge insistence on one frame when others work seemingly just as well. You gotta mask up and power through for this one.

The neurotypical-neurodivergence framework could be described as a psychiatric take on Self-Determination Theory: do what you want, act in accordance with your capacities, seek out environments that support you in this.

Now this is neurodivergence. I do not understand brotha 🫡

If I can offer my semi-educated opinion as a long-time member of this forum and actually having studied these things in school, I would say maybe 20-25% of the forum is autistic (in the "noticeable enough to label" sense; it's still a spectrum, it's still only my subjective assessment). Neurodivergence is of course a different story, but again, I don't really find it as a deeply groundbreaking concept. I remember in class one student explaining his choice of topic for a project and he quite invariantly used the word "narratives", and then the professor (German, from abroad, aware of how language works) was like "you know 'narratives' is just another word for 'stories', right?". And he was like "yeah" and then continued using the word. I feel so many apparent disagreements can be solved by simply acknowledging the concepts behind the words. Neurodivergence-neurotypical -> difference-sameness (of mind-body). Masking -> aligning with an externally enforced standard, conforming, following expectations, rules, conventions, norms. Burnout -> stress, lack of coping, lack of resilience, lack of fittedness to the environment, lack of competence, capacity, motivation, will, knowledge, strategy, structure, follow-through.

I suggest to not make any more new threads on the topic for a while. Please keep your new ideas to existing thread(s).

Locked for low quality.

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As with anything.

@r0ckyreed Why go to a restaurant at all?

Maybe everybody is autistic indeed if nobody wants to take the test 😝 It's only 2-3 minutes usually.

Pepsi, pizza, and some alcohol.

It's good that you've used the neurotypical-neurodivergent terminology to find out whether you're acting in line with what you really want. That has been my main occupation my entire life. My internal feeling for what I want, is a 190 decibel siren. I'm the idealist. It might benefit other people, so do what you think is best.

This is a better autism test: do you write a blog about emojis?: https://blog.emojipedia.org/ Yes No Yes, you have autism. (I'm not making fun of the guys, I love autism).

I thought you were more schizo than autistic :,( Autistics seem to use rules for determining emotional expression, non-autistics seem to use vibes. Vibes seem to be more efficient and more accurate when you only have the eyes to go by (the test is apparently time sensitive; I did not know that the first time I took the test).

I'm making fun of the term "nootropic" in this thread, not your choice to use a chemical. All power to you.