Standing up for your values might be decided to be a pathology - If you're autistic - eviltoast

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.

  • ExRedditor1928@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I think it probably scared the researchers too much that the “normal” neurotypical people were less likely to have moral values in any meaningful sense, so they tried (badly) to reframe it as neurodivergent people being bad. That’s probably what they’re used to believing in general, so they made an argument closer to their comfort zone instead of reporting the facts.

    Kind of reaffirming the study, in a way.