Does this include socially conservative autistic people? I have the impression that the autistic people who are more prominent or coordinated tend to be socially progressive, and that socially progressive people have greater enjoyment of foreign cultures.
(Incidentally, I also have the impression that a lot of the EQ-SQ debate is really about this? Some conservative male autist saying “sex/race differences are real!”, puritanical progressives going “how could you say such a horrible thing?!”, the conservative autist going “I don’t understand what I did wrong, maybe it is because of my male brain being very logical rather than obsessed about social harmony?”. And then a big part of why EQ-SQ theory is so marginalized is because progressive autists don’t want to be associated with sexism/racism, so they go “no, that’s not autism, he’s just a horrible person!”. In a way, this connects to my point in the post; I could respond on an object level to the arguments forwarded by SBC, but if EQ-SQ stuff is really motivated by this sort of drama, then maybe people wouldn’t be convinced by anything other than a response to that drama?)
I don’t know as many probably-socially-conservative probably-autistic people, but from who I do know they seem to enjoy spending time in foreign cultures still? Not very firm data there, even anecdotally, though.
Does this include socially conservative autistic people? I have the impression that the autistic people who are more prominent or coordinated tend to be socially progressive, and that socially progressive people have greater enjoyment of foreign cultures.
(Incidentally, I also have the impression that a lot of the EQ-SQ debate is really about this? Some conservative male autist saying “sex/race differences are real!”, puritanical progressives going “how could you say such a horrible thing?!”, the conservative autist going “I don’t understand what I did wrong, maybe it is because of my male brain being very logical rather than obsessed about social harmony?”. And then a big part of why EQ-SQ theory is so marginalized is because progressive autists don’t want to be associated with sexism/racism, so they go “no, that’s not autism, he’s just a horrible person!”. In a way, this connects to my point in the post; I could respond on an object level to the arguments forwarded by SBC, but if EQ-SQ stuff is really motivated by this sort of drama, then maybe people wouldn’t be convinced by anything other than a response to that drama?)
I don’t know as many probably-socially-conservative probably-autistic people, but from who I do know they seem to enjoy spending time in foreign cultures still? Not very firm data there, even anecdotally, though.