wikipedia is pretty autistic
@mooooo where are you on the spectrum? are you sure your not super autistic?
my cousin is mildly autistic, and there's big differences between us.
To most people, there's an innate awareness of social protocol always just below the surface of our mind.
In contrast, my cousin once picked his nose in front of a girl because "he was tired".
To him, social protocol is intellectual instead of emotional, like solving an equation. Most people do it intuitively, not having to think about it.
He also struggles a bit with speech, like his sentences are a bit segmented. Most people can fluently stream thoughts out through their mouth, but he's a bit like a youtube video that isn't buffering fast enough. It takes effort for him to turn a thought into speech.
I'm also a lot more flexible. He operates rigidly on pre-established rules. This side of the cupboard is his, this jar of honey is his, etc. I'll be like "hey, I got some cereal, you can go ahead and have some if you want". Then the next day I take a spoonful of honey and he freaks out because it's "his". Sure, I broke "a rule", but most people operate on a kind of social reciprocity. I do nice things, people do nice things back, providing you don't overstep the mark and take too much.
So really there's very large and obvious differences between a neurotypical and someone even mildly autistic, such that you wouldn't be making such assumptions if you really understood what it's like first hand.
I'm sure the women here would beg to differ. So, why don't we ask them for their take?
Hey, women of of the Kiwi Farms, do you agree with this?
Judge people by their actions, not by their words.
