Yes, that’s helpful, thank you. I don’t agree though. I think characterizing autistic people as “emotionally unresponsive” is incorrect, and that they share with borderlines the trait of… ~when sufficiently stressed, only holding one emotion at a time, and holding that one very strongly. Things get very black and white and very overwhelming.
Sources: autists and BPDs I have known, every discussion of BPD, Temple Grandin on her autism.
Yes, that’s helpful, thank you. I don’t agree though. I think characterizing autistic people as “emotionally unresponsive” is incorrect, and that they share with borderlines the trait of… ~when sufficiently stressed, only holding one emotion at a time, and holding that one very strongly. Things get very black and white and very overwhelming.
Sources: autists and BPDs I have known, every discussion of BPD, Temple Grandin on her autism.