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@ijyx@sunbeam.cityThings autism research could be about:
- How does autism radar work?
- Do we have an easier time communucating with other autistics because our ways of communication are similar, or because we've all had to learn to accomodate the people we're talking to?
- What can be done to prevent and treat autistic burnout?
- What even *is* autistic burnout exactly?
- What effects does masking have on your mental health?
- What autistic traits are actually traits of autism, and which ones are trauma responses?
- How is a non-traumatized autistic brain work?
- How can we better accomodate autistic people?
What autism research is about:
- How do we make the autistic people stop existing?
it's also about how they can make money trying to get us to stop existing lmao
@voidwitch of course, how could i forget
@ijyx this is a good list!
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Totally. Those are really excellent examples and also:
- why do many psych meds affect autistic people so diffferently?
- what stims helps for what types of disregulation?
- which theraphy modalities work best for autistic people?
- what are ADULT autistic people like?
- how does culture, biological sex and gender identity intersect with being autistic?
- how do autistic people *really* experience and learn empathy?
- what are the links between physical conditions like ED syndrome and autism?
- why do some autistic people have alexithymia and poor interoception, and some do not?
@ijyx I have the hypotesis that communication style is a spectrum of its own, and that people that comunicate similarly can understand each other better than with people in other parts of the spectrum.
What would improve communication between NTs and autistics was if NTs also learned about "autistic style", or generally about other styles. The problem I see here is that this would imply that they understand that their communication style isn't the only valid one.
@ijyx fucking seriously
@ijyx What do you mean by autism radar?
@anarchiv A lot of autistic people are able to recognize other autistic people, sometimes even before interacting
@ijyx Ah, I presumed that's what you meant but wasn't sure. Thanks!
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@ijyx I'm sick of neurotypicals acting like we autistics are something to be "cured" when it's obvious we are, if not a step forward for humanity, at the very least a major positive contribution to the rich tapestry of humanity. I'm tired of being treated like some sort of genetic damage.
@ijyx you forgot about "how can we put autistic people to work for us and eugenic away the useless ones"
@ijyx "How do we make the autistic people stop existing?"
I can save the people trying to answer that a lot of time and money with a single word.
Unfortunately that word is murder.
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@ijyx anecdotally my money is on getting along with other autistics better because we think similarly rather than having learned to be accommodating. I also suspect that being less clued-in to unspoken social “rules” makes us less judgmental which makes all social interaction more enjoyable. There is some research that suggests autistics are not the problem when it comes to difficulty between ND and NT folks, the NT people have biases that make everyone else uncomfortable.
@SpookSpectre @ijyx yes. This!
@ijyx instead its mostly
- how do we help the parents
- are there any drugs to make people less autistic
- how can we make autistic people cope with the world
- how gut bacteria causes autism (google it I swear -_-)
@transbunny it's not even "how can we make autistic people cope with the world", it's "how can we make the world cope with autistic people"
@ijyx for fuckin real.
It's most likely the former. Before I even knew what autism was there where other people I recognize now I got along with very well and it "just clicked". At that time I thought most people were absolute assholes and that's just the way the world works. I didn't realize they weren't being assholes on purpose but just having an uncontentious reaction to what was weird to them talking to an autistic person.