Not really an exception since autistic people can still sexually reproduce with neurotypical humans, and especially since there’s a whole spectrum with varying degrees and even different symptoms not always showing up; autistic people don’t have any unique complex machinery and not even any missing complex machinery, at least not in terms of the entire machinery missing.
As a mildly autistic person I really wish I could make some comment from personal experience on anthropomorphism, but… I suppose the problem is that I only have the experiences of an autistic person to compare my experiences to, so I can’t say much in relative terms, and haven’t very strongly noticed trends among neurotypical people to be different.
Personally I think I actually tend to anthropomorphize more as a result of my ability to guess what others are thinking being learned rather than instinctive. Because I really am using the same circuitry for comprehending people as I do for comprehending car engines and computers and using it in essentially the same way.
But I may not be typical. Best guess is that my particular quirks are mostly the result of a childhood head injury rather than anything genetic.
Not really an exception since autistic people can still sexually reproduce with neurotypical humans, and especially since there’s a whole spectrum with varying degrees and even different symptoms not always showing up; autistic people don’t have any unique complex machinery and not even any missing complex machinery, at least not in terms of the entire machinery missing. As a mildly autistic person I really wish I could make some comment from personal experience on anthropomorphism, but… I suppose the problem is that I only have the experiences of an autistic person to compare my experiences to, so I can’t say much in relative terms, and haven’t very strongly noticed trends among neurotypical people to be different.
Personally I think I actually tend to anthropomorphize more as a result of my ability to guess what others are thinking being learned rather than instinctive. Because I really am using the same circuitry for comprehending people as I do for comprehending car engines and computers and using it in essentially the same way.
But I may not be typical. Best guess is that my particular quirks are mostly the result of a childhood head injury rather than anything genetic.