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Deficit or difference 🧵

Autistic deficit no.10:
Not automatically prioritising appearances.

In the “negative or nothing” model of autism, this is framed as poor social awareness, rather than a refusal to make surface performance more important than deeper things.

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ARGVMI~1.PIF · 1w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqp76yvmz4pctkljk0j4dd7qh963p0f7sgez2q9nwjqrtvl0x9mjuqavn95f In other words, autistic people consider it important to present themselves honestly? I mean, that is indisputably a virtue. Anybody trying to frame that as “poor social awareness...