It’s a bit of good-for-the-gander: everything autistic people is cast as a deficit.
Reality Processing Disorder (Typical) is just a deficit-based way to describe neurotypical behavior from an autistic perspective.
So, autistic desire for bluntness over protecting people feelings, if it were the MAJORITY view, would be seen as “normal” and it would be the neurotypicals of having the disorder of never saying what they mean (oo! I need to add that!).
I hope this is useful in understanding why I missed the joke: I wanted to match what I thought was a serious tone because I was afraid of causing insult if it seemed I wasn’t treating your comment as earnest.
Maybe part of the joke is referencing that autistic people need to make their own frameworks because (especially as adults) we are left to raw dog an existence not made for us yet we yearn for rules. I’ve seen a few people creating theories like this seriously, although they are often centring the autistic experience instead of dissecting allistic traits. That’s why I was being extra careful when wording my question.
So yeah, maybe a little tone indicator when you make your post would be good, or even explaining that this is an exercise in pathologizing allistic behavior instead of the other way around.
It’s a bit of good-for-the-gander: everything autistic people is cast as a deficit.
Reality Processing Disorder (Typical) is just a deficit-based way to describe neurotypical behavior from an autistic perspective.
So, autistic desire for bluntness over protecting people feelings, if it were the MAJORITY view, would be seen as “normal” and it would be the neurotypicals of having the disorder of never saying what they mean (oo! I need to add that!).
Thank you! I think I understand now.
I like to keep my jokes dry as possible, but I might need to include a little explainer.
I hope this is useful in understanding why I missed the joke: I wanted to match what I thought was a serious tone because I was afraid of causing insult if it seemed I wasn’t treating your comment as earnest.
Maybe part of the joke is referencing that autistic people need to make their own frameworks because (especially as adults) we are left to raw dog an existence not made for us yet we yearn for rules. I’ve seen a few people creating theories like this seriously, although they are often centring the autistic experience instead of dissecting allistic traits. That’s why I was being extra careful when wording my question.
So yeah, maybe a little tone indicator when you make your post would be good, or even explaining that this is an exercise in pathologizing allistic behavior instead of the other way around.