Maybe various sorts of modeling other people’s points of view should be included.
Neurotypicals are assumed to have a theory of mind, but I think a lot of people can pass the “does someone else know where the treat is just because you do” test without getting much farther.
I don’t think neurotype has all that much to do with it. The illusion of transparency is a thing; so is the expert blind spot, or what I sometimes think of as “the professor fallacy” or “the promoted-to-management fallacy” — the mistake that just because I am good at doing X myself, that I must therefore be good at instructing people in how to do X.
What I was trying to say was that the capacity of neurotypicals to model other people’s minds is apt to be wildly overestimated, both for themselves and for other neurotypicals..
Maybe various sorts of modeling other people’s points of view should be included.
Neurotypicals are assumed to have a theory of mind, but I think a lot of people can pass the “does someone else know where the treat is just because you do” test without getting much farther.
I don’t think neurotype has all that much to do with it. The illusion of transparency is a thing; so is the expert blind spot, or what I sometimes think of as “the professor fallacy” or “the promoted-to-management fallacy” — the mistake that just because I am good at doing X myself, that I must therefore be good at instructing people in how to do X.
What I was trying to say was that the capacity of neurotypicals to model other people’s minds is apt to be wildly overestimated, both for themselves and for other neurotypicals..