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Standing up for your values might be decided to be a pathology - If you're autistic (neuroclastic.com)
submitted 1 year ago by SuddenDownpour to c/autism
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This article picks apart a bunch of biases by the researchers of a given paper. The object of study was the differences in behavior between a group of autistic people and a group of non-autistic people when choosing between prioritizing value for oneself or value for the community.

I recommend reading the paper itself too. If that is, understandably, too much for you, I suggest you go for the introduction, the conclusion, and the segments mentioned in the article.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

@SuddenDownpour Pathologizing aside, this matches up with another thing I've seen pointed out as an autistic trait that backs this up: value based identity vs group based identity.

Allistics typically tie their identity up in the groups they're a part of: family, work, church, town/city/state, etc

Autistics tie our identity up in our values: what we do, impacts we've made, accomplishments tied to our values

This is why you hear things like "snitches get stitches" because group loyalty is considered more critically important than values, or how we're seen as turning on the group when we call out how the group could be improved.

This would especially make sense in the mentioned study because when you take away the group it takes away the impact to their identity while our identities don't care if someone is watching.