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[tesla]

Me? I'm tired of being afraid. So as of now, I'm done.

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Re: Fear

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

From what I've read, autistic people lack the ability -- or have a severely reduced ability -- to mentally represent other peoples' mental states.

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Re: Fear

[guppiecat]

That's true, but some of them have savant-like abilities that often revolve around memorization: know pi to thousands of decimal places, can sketch photo-realistic scenes from memory, rapidly mentally calculate complex algorithms, etc.

Not to say there's not a significant cost or that their brains are wired differently. I'm just saying that I've read that part of what is wired differently is the motivation/reward piece.

Re: Fear

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Yes. Of course. This is one study about the mental seat for morality; it doesn't even pretend to be comprehensive analysis of autism.

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