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What's that got to do with autism?
Ever overhear an argument at a gaming convention?
Yes, but that's because they are assholes not autistic
They're both. It's a deadly combo.
It's only part to do with Autism. My experience with moderate to strong autism in people is like a dog with a bone. They will not drop a point and will stay super focused on it even when everyone else has moved on, or conversation moves forward. Autism makes people "sticky" they won't drop a view they hold without trusting the people they are interacting with to a significant degree. This is not
But the other descriptors are very important to producing shitty people. The part that makes this bad is the narcissist part.
Autism is just one that makes it hard to put themselves in the other peoples shoes. Autism makes it difficult to understand other people's perspective and can lock in on their own experience of the world which doesn't usually align with the vast majority of other humans. They have a really hard time relating to other people in some people.
Having 3 such people with the those specific traits arguing against each other, the autism part is not what makes them bad people. A better way to describe the affect autism would have in this scenario is that you could say ruthlessly and mercilessly tenacious instead of autism because that's the enhancement autism produces in this scenario.
It's a very useful capability when channelled in good ways, channeling it in narcissistic ways is what is wrong here. Autism is a powerup, it's not bad the way the other descriptors are
You don't have to be autistic to get stuck on a view, look at the MAGA base while the leopard eats their faces
No you dont. Absolutely correct. But it's a very different kind of compulsion for people who express their autism that way.
Hyper fixated on being dicks?
Don't need autism to do that.
Can't argue with that