“What takes real courage is braving the outright incomprehension of the people around you,”
I suspect that autistics are far more willing than neurotypicals to be true iconoclast because many neurotypicals find autistics incomprehensible regardless of what the autistics believe. So the price of being an intellectual iconoclast is lower for autistics than for most other people.
Yes—I was going to reply to “There are certain people who have no fear of departing the pack” with “there are some people who can’t stay with the pack!”.
These (not just the autistics, but also other neurodiverse folks) are the true “natural outsiders”. As demonstrated by the OP’s comments, their presence in a group (or contrariwise their exclusion) has nontrivial effects on how a group acts, and especially how it deals with challenges.
“What takes real courage is braving the outright incomprehension of the people around you,”
I suspect that autistics are far more willing than neurotypicals to be true iconoclast because many neurotypicals find autistics incomprehensible regardless of what the autistics believe. So the price of being an intellectual iconoclast is lower for autistics than for most other people.
Yes—I was going to reply to “There are certain people who have no fear of departing the pack” with “there are some people who can’t stay with the pack!”.
These (not just the autistics, but also other neurodiverse folks) are the true “natural outsiders”. As demonstrated by the OP’s comments, their presence in a group (or contrariwise their exclusion) has nontrivial effects on how a group acts, and especially how it deals with challenges.
Thanks goodness for the neurodiverse, then!