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Jamesy
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04 Mar 2011, 3:47 pm

What does it mean when people say "Someone with aspergers or autisim cannot differ thier own beliefs from other people?"



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04 Mar 2011, 4:16 pm

Jamesy wrote:
What does it mean when people say "Someone with aspergers or autisim cannot differ thier own beliefs from other people?"


It means the same thing as it does when I say "NT's think everyone thinks like them."



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04 Mar 2011, 4:17 pm

This sounds like a theory of mind thing.


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04 Mar 2011, 4:37 pm

Ehh.. it's like when you watch TV news a lot and are unable to come up with a sensible opinion on it so you just parrot what the news announcer has said.

Seems like difficulty thinking critically and connecting ideas from (seemingly) unrelated subjects.

Plenty of people do that. Should be emphasized that we are not always taught to think critically, and our methods of transmitting information are often infused with layers of morality/biases that are not obvious.


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04 Mar 2011, 5:00 pm

It means they're ignorant and stereotyping millions of people.


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04 Mar 2011, 5:15 pm

Bethie wrote:
It means they're ignorant and stereotyping millions of people.

Yes, agree. This is the kind of statement about people on the Asperger's / Autism Spectrum, said on a "news" program by someone pompous who is trying to sound important.



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04 Mar 2011, 5:23 pm

It seems to come up a lot in debates here; It goes something like:

Person A will state an opinion/belief as if it was irrefutable fact. Others will argue against it with their own views, or just to show that there are other views. Person A will not comprehend why they are being argued against because they're clearly right...

8 pages later, the thread has disintegrated into name-calling and insults and the thread gets lost

Common themes I've seen are abortion, pre-marital sex, religion... I'm sure if I lurked around PPR, there'd be even more... they're generally themes that polarize people in the general population, and I don't think the inability to listen to the other side of things is limited to aspies at all.



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04 Mar 2011, 5:48 pm

Lene wrote:
It seems to come up a lot in debates here; It goes something like:

Person A will state an opinion/belief as if it was irrefutable fact. Others will argue against it with their own views, or just to show that there are other views. Person A will not comprehend why they are being argued against because they're clearly right...

8 pages later, the thread has disintegrated into name-calling and insults and the thread gets lost

Common themes I've seen are abortion, pre-marital sex, religion... I'm sure if I lurked around PPR, there'd be even more... they're generally themes that polarize people in the general population, and I don't think the inability to listen to the other side of things is limited to aspies at all.


It might be a human default mode that people move away from only when they make a conscious effort.



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