I don’t doubt you, but this is an area where I, and other auties, seem likely to be less well calibrated—we tend to encounter discrimination often enough that it can come to seem like a normal part of interacting with people, rather than something that we should avoid doing. Being made aware of it when that’s the case is then likely to be useful to those of us who’d like to recalibrate ourselves.
Er. For example, it is really hard to communicate here without being totally literal! And people don’t get my jokes!:-)
I wasn’t complaining. I was trying to point out that the risk of being discriminated against for having Aspergers Syndrome here was very low given the high number of autism spectrum commenters here and the general climate of the site. I thought I was making a humorous point about the uniqueness of Less Wrong, like “We’re so different from the rest of the internet; we discriminate against neurotypicals! Take that rest of the world!” while also sort of engaging in collective self-mockery “Less Wrong is a really autistic place.”
I really hope the upvotes are from people who chuckled, and not sympathy for an oppressed minority (in any case I’m like a 26 on the Baron-Cohen quiz).
I did chuckle, actually, but that’s not mutually exclusive with it being a true statement that I haven’t previously noticed the truth of. It’s better to check than to assume, per my values. :)
I really hope the upvotes are from people who chuckled, and not sympathy for an oppressed minority (in any case I’m like a 26 on the Baron-Cohen quiz).
I upvoted due to chuckling, because it contains a nugget of truth.
I don’t believe that neurotypicals are oppressed here, but I can certainly see that NTs would feel marginalised in the same way that auts can feel marginalised in normal social scenes.
I probably go below 26 on the baron-cohen test sometimes (I normally lie at 31, but recent bout of depression has had me at ~38) but if so, I’ve never taken it at such a time (well, I wouldn’t expect to, I’d be too busy socialising)
Mightn’t you be discriminated against for having Aspergers Syndrome? There is presumably some risk of such even here.
I sometimes feel discriminated against here for not being autistic enough.
Can you, or others, give some examples of this?
I don’t doubt you, but this is an area where I, and other auties, seem likely to be less well calibrated—we tend to encounter discrimination often enough that it can come to seem like a normal part of interacting with people, rather than something that we should avoid doing. Being made aware of it when that’s the case is then likely to be useful to those of us who’d like to recalibrate ourselves.
Er. For example, it is really hard to communicate here without being totally literal! And people don’t get my jokes!:-)
I wasn’t complaining. I was trying to point out that the risk of being discriminated against for having Aspergers Syndrome here was very low given the high number of autism spectrum commenters here and the general climate of the site. I thought I was making a humorous point about the uniqueness of Less Wrong, like “We’re so different from the rest of the internet; we discriminate against neurotypicals! Take that rest of the world!” while also sort of engaging in collective self-mockery “Less Wrong is a really autistic place.”
I really hope the upvotes are from people who chuckled, and not sympathy for an oppressed minority (in any case I’m like a 26 on the Baron-Cohen quiz).
Sorry if I alarmed anyone. *Facepalm
I did chuckle, actually, but that’s not mutually exclusive with it being a true statement that I haven’t previously noticed the truth of. It’s better to check than to assume, per my values. :)
I upvoted due to chuckling, because it contains a nugget of truth.
I don’t believe that neurotypicals are oppressed here, but I can certainly see that NTs would feel marginalised in the same way that auts can feel marginalised in normal social scenes.
I probably go below 26 on the baron-cohen test sometimes (I normally lie at 31, but recent bout of depression has had me at ~38) but if so, I’ve never taken it at such a time (well, I wouldn’t expect to, I’d be too busy socialising)
I got that you may have been making a joke, but I wasn’t sure how much truth was behind it. Now that I know it was a joke, I do find it funny.