outofplace wrote:
One of the things you might want to read up on is called "Theory of mind". It's something that is typically lacking in people who are on the spectrum. What it means is that you have an ability to assign thoughts and intentions different from your own to other people. We tend not to do this and instead think of others as mirrors of ourselves. The degree to which someone does this seems to vary though and life has a way of teaching us not to think this way.
I'd to agree the most vehemently with the last part of your last sentence. I think, too, that people with autism or a few other neurological disabilities tend to develop a theory of mind that tends to assume that people think differently that they do, period, while NTs (not just people without autism, but without
any other neurological disability) tend to develop a theory of mind that believes that while anothers' thoughts are different, they are at least similar. Does that make any sense?
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