KatyElphinstone@mas.toAutistic people have a different way of understanding and engaging with the world.
The DSM describes our interests as 'abnormal in intensity or focus'.
And studies have described a 'weak central coherence' (meaning a tendency to focus on details, rather than the bigger picture - which puzzles me as how, then, are we such good pattern-spotters? Surely that requires ‘seeing the bigger picture’?).
But… what if our 'different ways' in these areas have been chronically misobserved and misread?
A short 🧵
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*goose holding knife* what is the big picture made of?!
@ozzelot @KatyElphinstone
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honestly, just their common, shared psychodrama. The serious business of passing on their trauma.
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I’ve always wondered what it was they were chasing, it often seems that nothing at all matters except some secret project or cold war they’re engaged in. 💜
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@ozzelot @KatyElphinstone @autistics
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ooh, sorry, I misread the question didn’t I, I answered only what THEIR big picture is made of.
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Of course, it’s made of the details. But maybe some of both, our neurotype and all the details.