Hanotaux wrote:
Not really, the site generally encourages AS exceptionalism, rather than the notion that people with AS must try to conform to the reality of the NT world as much as possible.
So lashing out at someone for supposedly not 'conforming to reality,' with all that might mean in the general sense, seems kind of hypocritical.
I don't encourage AS exceptionalism. Other posters also show some more balance on the issue as well. AS is a condition, and one that has many negative characteristics, so saying that every discovery or whatever is the result of a person with AS is just deeply incorrect.
Secondly, the two issues are not equivalent, Hanotaux. The reality of the NT world is a social construct, and thus can be altered, and seeking to change a social construct rather than conforming to it is not intellectually problematic. In fact, all political beliefs tend to be based upon that desire. However, the notion of "conforming to reality" is often not a matter of behaviors so much truth-claims, and honestly, I would see Master_Pedant as really making the claim that his beliefs are closer to the truth than Katharsistwo's beliefs. (I can't see a more plausible interpretation at least)