In the most abstract? Some way to demonstrate to people (including myself) that I’m a sapient being that deserves respect, and not a worthless, lazy, broken, scary parasite.
More concretely, some mechanistic description of why I’ve had trouble operating within existing social norms, and why I tend to operate under different base assumptions than others—preferably a description that might suggest methods of interacting with the human world that allows me to maintain my dignity and self-respect, without having to immediately acknowledge my abject worthlessness and helplessness as a unilateral precondition for requesting assistance.
It would be nice if someone could point at a bit of my brain, or a specific pattern of answers on behavioral tests, and say “you follow this descriptive pattern which we’ve labeled X, whereas most people follow this other descriptive pattern which we’ve labeled Y. There’s a lot of research that shows that X does not interact well with Y”, in a way that isn’t an obvious attempt to reinforce their own social assumptions against a threatening Other.
In the most abstract? Some way to demonstrate to people (including myself) that I’m a sapient being that deserves respect, and not a worthless, lazy, broken, scary parasite.
More concretely, some mechanistic description of why I’ve had trouble operating within existing social norms, and why I tend to operate under different base assumptions than others—preferably a description that might suggest methods of interacting with the human world that allows me to maintain my dignity and self-respect, without having to immediately acknowledge my abject worthlessness and helplessness as a unilateral precondition for requesting assistance.
It would be nice if someone could point at a bit of my brain, or a specific pattern of answers on behavioral tests, and say “you follow this descriptive pattern which we’ve labeled X, whereas most people follow this other descriptive pattern which we’ve labeled Y. There’s a lot of research that shows that X does not interact well with Y”, in a way that isn’t an obvious attempt to reinforce their own social assumptions against a threatening Other.