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   Richard Littler (richard_littler@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 19:15:23 JST Richard Littler

   Autistic people are called neurodivergent because they have a disorder that makes their "brains work differently to typical brains". E.g.: Neurotypical behaviour is confusing to autistic people because it seems irrational, contradictory, inconsistent, absurd, illogical. But then you look at the...
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     Richard Littler (richard_littler@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 19:15:54 JST Richard Littler

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     ...election results, especially some of the the people who voted for Trump - women, minorities, Christians - and you have to wonder who the actual fuck has the clearer insights into and better understanding of the world, and who should be diagnosed with 'disorders'.
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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 19:17:52 JST Charlie Stross

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     @Richard_Littler I have a random SF story idea on the "to-do" pile, about an autocracy—only people with very specific neurodivergences are allowed to hold positions of power. It's not a utopia, though: neurotypical folks mostly can't cope with too much rationality in their environment.