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You know the story of the blind men & an elephant trying to decide what it is by touch? It's all about perspective & the finite ability of our senses. But I suspect we humans have an additional problem. It's as though our sight, on seeing an elephant, is designed to filter out parts of it. "What trunk? I don't see a trunk from any angle. Shit, what just stole my hat?" But, that selective vision was suited to a different, earlier, human reality, not ours

Maybe less so for #actuallyautistic 🤔

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

@[email protected] ..and btw, I'm not saying some #actuallyautistic have a savant ability (the lack of selective filters doesn't automatically come with the processing power to handle extra data). No more than I'm saying, the selective view of NTs is a disability. It's about suitability for context. But perhaps the evolutionary value of autistic traits is that they allow the species a get-out clause when it reaches a place where its filters are counterproductive @[email protected]

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