I’ve seen several smart autistic people on the internet say some variation of “they learn to emulate in software what normal people do in hardware, and that’s how they manage to navigate social life well enough”. Essentially as you describe. And I’d add that a major component of high intelligence likely means being good at doing things “in software” (approx. “system 2”).
I’ve seen several smart autistic people on the internet say some variation of “they learn to emulate in software what normal people do in hardware, and that’s how they manage to navigate social life well enough”. Essentially as you describe. And I’d add that a major component of high intelligence likely means being good at doing things “in software” (approx. “system 2”).