I’m, ‘gratified’ I guess, to see other comments here about autism. As I read through the post, I immediately began having the impression that “rationalist community” was being used like a euphemism for “community with high rate of autism”. I know it isn’t, literally, but there are aspects of rationalism and this type of explicit communication that I have always thought of as ‘gifts’ that people on the autism spectrum bring to humanity.
I’m, ‘gratified’ I guess, to see other comments here about autism. As I read through the post, I immediately began having the impression that “rationalist community” was being used like a euphemism for “community with high rate of autism”. I know it isn’t, literally, but there are aspects of rationalism and this type of explicit communication that I have always thought of as ‘gifts’ that people on the autism spectrum bring to humanity.