I understood it as a method of getting an access to emotions. The problem framing does not really carry an interpretation where you could be 100% aware of everything and still be suffering from the problem, because the antidote offered is to become aware of something (100% awereness might be superhumanly difficult).
Claiming that most blind people do not see well 20 meters away is not disparaging in itself. Alexithymia is a catalogued autism trait. It is a spectrum and when you have met one autist you have met one autist. So while assuming all traits upon learning one of them would be erroneuos, the presence of each of the traits become relevant. It is sensible to check whether a particular blind person can see well 1 meter away, is able to turn their eyeballs or knows how to echolocate. Poor understanding of autism can lead to treating disparaging properties to be autism traits. Even misrepresenting frequency can have the same effect. Special interests are a thing but deducing “autistic → spends daily 3 hours on some specific topic” is ignorantly wrong. Alexithymias basedness as a trait is not very questionable. As a trait alexithymia directly deals with awereness (it is not athymia in the same go). Thus lack of awereness is relevant to alexithymia. So to think without knowing that in the intersection of “awereness” and “autism” alexithymia is worth processing is a leap that can be justified in good faith. Thus I disagree and think that “suggesting that access to emotion is ablist” is not ablist.
Being demanding and making a typical mind fallacy is quite bad a combo. Being sure that the antidote has high reliability does commit that kind of bad.
I do think that insisting that it doesn’t work is ignoring that alexithymic people can respond to stuff like this positively, to project a particular responce profile to be typical to the point of fallacy. Selling a placebo and a dangerously unreliable drug are slightly different things.
The post does admit guilt of being rude and bad in all kinds of ways. Choosing to give essential tips for a few by insulting and harming many is a real tradeoff.
Claims about therapy effectiveness are also prone to responce profiles. I wouldn’t be surprised if cognitive-behavioral therapy would be elevatedly effective for autistist because of high combatibility with explicit processing.
I understood it as a method of getting an access to emotions. The problem framing does not really carry an interpretation where you could be 100% aware of everything and still be suffering from the problem, because the antidote offered is to become aware of something (100% awereness might be superhumanly difficult).
Claiming that most blind people do not see well 20 meters away is not disparaging in itself. Alexithymia is a catalogued autism trait. It is a spectrum and when you have met one autist you have met one autist. So while assuming all traits upon learning one of them would be erroneuos, the presence of each of the traits become relevant. It is sensible to check whether a particular blind person can see well 1 meter away, is able to turn their eyeballs or knows how to echolocate. Poor understanding of autism can lead to treating disparaging properties to be autism traits. Even misrepresenting frequency can have the same effect. Special interests are a thing but deducing “autistic → spends daily 3 hours on some specific topic” is ignorantly wrong. Alexithymias basedness as a trait is not very questionable. As a trait alexithymia directly deals with awereness (it is not athymia in the same go). Thus lack of awereness is relevant to alexithymia. So to think without knowing that in the intersection of “awereness” and “autism” alexithymia is worth processing is a leap that can be justified in good faith. Thus I disagree and think that “suggesting that access to emotion is ablist” is not ablist.
Being demanding and making a typical mind fallacy is quite bad a combo. Being sure that the antidote has high reliability does commit that kind of bad.
I do think that insisting that it doesn’t work is ignoring that alexithymic people can respond to stuff like this positively, to project a particular responce profile to be typical to the point of fallacy. Selling a placebo and a dangerously unreliable drug are slightly different things.
The post does admit guilt of being rude and bad in all kinds of ways. Choosing to give essential tips for a few by insulting and harming many is a real tradeoff.
Claims about therapy effectiveness are also prone to responce profiles. I wouldn’t be surprised if cognitive-behavioral therapy would be elevatedly effective for autistist because of high combatibility with explicit processing.