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77 sats \ 2 replies \ @elvismercury 1h \ on: The double empathy problem mostly_harmless
As stated here, I think this is a general state of humankind thing (even beyond humankind actually, the problem is generally information-theoretic).
All people are interpreting all other people according to available schemas and experience and tacit assumptions and can interact based on that shared catalogue - it's just that autistic people violate the schemas most people have on hand.
Are autistic people able to communicate with each other more effectively? If so, is it bc of shared experience, or just because they make no assumption of sharing experience?
Are autistic people able to communicate with each other more effectively? If so, is it bc of shared experience, or just because they make no assumption of sharing experience?
It's not a hard rule, although often people at similar levels of the spectrum will get along better than those from different levels. The resulting interaction is a little different from when two normal people with a shared interest connect over it; folks on the spectrum are quite good at "downloading" while the interlocutor "infodumps", and good luck getting a neurotypical to participate in this sort of interaction if they're not making a conscious effort to be polite... ironically enough, this effort is quite similar to how high-functioning autists describe that they can mask their condition and behave normally, although it takes a continued conscious effort.
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Thanks.
My understanding was that the "spectrum" is less a spectrum (e.g., EM spectrum) than a high-dimensional subspace, s.t. people can have conditions that make them quite diverse in the ways they want to take in stimuli, including interaction w/ other people.
Do you know if that's right? How does such a thing factor in?
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