Beliefs and cognitive biases

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I am interested in how ASD/aspergers interacts with religion and belief. Im running some research at uni about belief, biases such as anthropomorphism and ASD/asperger traits. Any thoughts on the issue? Do you treat inanimate objects like humans? Research suggests those with ASD/aspergers do it more in adulthood compared to control group

Antriwhateveryoujusttyped? Haha! Well, God is real.

For me, yes … (humans as objects) ...

-limited eye-contact with them
-stress/annoyance with interactions makes me dislike interaction
-aggravating behaviors that I have to deal with
-expectation of limited intelligence
-I develop a mental rage when the aggravation gets so much
- I memorize their patterns, and try to optimize my interaction with them

So, I mostly treat humans as OBSTACLES to overcome.

I go so far as to give them names based on their pattern, like, random person in supermarket that blocks me is "BLOCKER". Then later, if I see "BLOCKER" again, I may choose a different route, because "BLOCKER" may block me again.

A few times a month, I feel like people are SIM characters placed to see how I respond.

A lot of that is probably TMI, ie. if you're running an experiment you probably don't want to tell us exactly what you're trying to assess (based on whether or not we like the analysis we could throw ourselves at it or deny it).

I'm really not sure what you'll find here, my guess is it'll be a slightly higher number of reductive materialists (that could partially be because that's more popular in online communities, it could be partly AS tendencies toward deductive reasoning) and you may find a slightly higher number of non-traditional religious/spiritual practitioners (I'd fall into this category myself) largely because choices along those lines may more often be research-based rather than familial, for the most part though I think we'll be pretty close to the mean on most of this.

Logical fallacy


A lot of the time, the claim is factually accurate and the implication is wrong


For example, "you make people uncomfortable with the way you dress!" ( ,f**k mister redelings) is correct


The implication is that only I make people uncomfortable with the way I dress


Wrong


Everyone makes people uncomfortable with the way they dress



Furthermore, I also make people uncomfortable when I continue living


Does that show that "you don't care about anyone except yourself!"?