1a. A CAVEAT ABOUT THE MANNOSPHERE'S MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF BORDERLINE-AUTISM INTELLECTUAL DICHOTOMY
The channosphere’s cultural toxicity has led us to a belief that the two conditions are mutually exclusive on lines of gender alone, much how psychiatrists had practiced in the past, and still do in America, the splitting of diagnoses Borderline and Anti-Social Personality Disorder on whether you are female or, respectively, not.
Ignoring all other criterion, of course.
I will be using equalities to discuss the IQ profile differentials of these conditions, to clarify terminologically, IQ in all instances refers to the whole-scale score irrespective of profile, whilst “P” (formerly “VS” or visuospatial) refers to performance sub-set aggregate score, and “V” (verbal) refers to verbal subset aggregate score. Borrowing an argument from a recent correspondence of mine:
[Cohen diagram again lol; I've no independent picture on my kindle for it -- I embedded it hard-state onto the word file -- so you'll just have to make do]
“As for my racism, that too is, for me, a science as opposed to exclusive prejudice. Mongoloid, Caucasoid, and Negroid (East Asian, White, and Black in today's language) scores on IQ test can be gradiated downwards in a correlantial reliability. Mongoloids tend towards intellectually autistic talents (IQ = Performance>Verbal), Whites are generalizers (IQ = Performance=Verbal), and Blacks tend towards intellectually "schizoform", but since most aren't psychotically ill, let's say, "personality disordered" intellectual talents (IQ = Verbal>Performance). Even if means did converge one day due to cultural efforts and the elimination of prejudice, these profiles are genetically ingrained. To define Verbal and Performance, as Charles Murray of the Bell Curve says, Verbal is 'how it sounds', Performance is 'manipulation of geometries in the mind'. This is a bit of an oversimplification, however: firstly, Verbal is split into Verbal Vocabulary and Verbal Reasoning/Analogies (having been tested semi-formally which was a drain on my pocket, I do better in the latter, far, far better, my score here is in supergenius levels whilst my vocab is trailing of average); Performance encompasses a number of subtests many of which I haven't a recollection of, but here are the most common I've looked into -- Raven's Progressive Matrices (I've scored 118 on a replica and 122 on a pen-and-paper version), Block construction, Scanning (this tends to be a female rather than male strength), and a few others I struggle to recall without the literary material and my private IQ test results on hand. Other than the fact Processing Speed drags them all down (I'm admittedly slow as a thinker, but somehow this doesn't affect my rapid absorption of facts), I don't do too badly when that's taken out of the equation. I won't tell you my exact score. It's categorically in the wider-average range, the good end of that.”
- Planned correspondence to a college discussing an admissions oversight, using the data of racial science to argue the point of how prejudice is indeed non-existent in the light of objectivity
A common argument I had encountered in my informal excursions on autism discussion boards on the channosphere was that Asperger’s syndrome, being “hypermale”, must entail an IQ=P>V (and in the majority it does, but in a significant minority -- ~25% -- unlike the rest of the spectrum, it does not; males exhibiting this profile are at nearly half of all of them, whilst females with the condition are almost always V>P), whilst Borderlines, being, literally and unironically, on the border between the schizophrenia spectrum and the furthest end of neurofemininity, must entail IQ=V>P (which generally speaking is true, but not universal by any means, as I will follow): these premises seem to imply a mutual exclusivity between ASD and BPD despite co-morbidity being observed in 18% of a study sample involving the former. This might be a slight under-estimate if we are relying on intellectual profiles alone, but the emotional must be considered: autism generally invites neglect due to a perception of coldness, more sensitively inclined or greatly abused autists would then later go to lengths to compensate for such negligence. This is a far better aetiology than pretending that the neurofeminine “Mannosphere’s” dichotomization of the two means much more than a heuristic.
The association between verbal intellect and empathy, and performance intellect and systematization, is problematic, as it is a classic “correlation, therefore causation” fallacy which doesn’t take into account the individual encapsulation of these concepts and measures in relation to each other. Verbal intellect is sub-divided into two parts on the Weschler; vocabulary, and analogies. What we see in Borderlines is that they tend towards vocabularic propensity, but this is almost never the case in Mongoloids (who are, by far, verbal reasoners); well, that simply means a symptomal incongruity, not a differentially diagnostic exclusion. Empatheticness should be regarded a separate skill altogether in that the reciprocal socio-emotional relationship with a person can sometimes be exhibited in the lowest intelligence individuals with universally poor scores, yet they learn the names of their cohorts, act normally, play normally, etc. The high verbal-vocabulary of Borderlines may be coincidental Histrionic traits, per the “PRAISE ME” mnemonic; the Speech is superficial and designed to impress.
Similarily should this fallacy be untangled for the association between systematization and performance intellect, which is a bit trickier, but one does have two arguments up their sleeve: systematization can occur on anything given that the definition of systematization is merely “to reify a concept into a systematic entity”, explaining the high verbal-reasoning scores of many Aspies. Yet, by comparison or even in the absolute, they can, and do, often exhibit performance deficit in key areas (scanning, processing speed; making White Aspies in this respect anachronistic to Mongoloids). If systematization is devoted to the cultivation of verbal skills, it would therefore make sense that performance would either decline in parallel on the whole, or, be preserved only in key aspects useful to this systematization (a common profile is IQ=(verbal reasoning + Raven’s fluid intelligence + block construction) > everything else).
The absolution of a correlation of empathy in this regard therefore cannot be affirmed given the ambiguities of the disparity of sub-types within whole-scale IQ profiles, and hence the caveat in the diagram sources from the 8chan’s /cow/, why it could never denote absolute low empathy, demonstrating an Asperger-Borderline comorbid is indeed feasible.