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Allistic people don't have theory of mind. They have cognitive shortcuts that evolved due to intense selection pressure in the ancestral environment. They interpret these phenomenologically as a sort of mystical sacred abstraction. Where autistic people have TOO MUCH theory of mind, in the sense they actually look for casual mechanisms behind thoughts and actions and thus necessarily get it wrong with allistics (who are short circuiting, and constitute the bulk of human beings). Every allistic short circuit is important, because it points to a danger, but you can't ask an allistic why the danger exists, and they perpetuate the danger through their social structure. Allistics interpret the absence of these short circuits as missing an important piece of epistemics or even personhood because they are highly emotionally salient, but it's important to remember that they have zero information content. The allistic does not have internal access to the logic that drives them.