“i fail to understand how autistic people are simultaneously seen as struggle w empathy and have a strong sense of justice” said as if it’s a gotcha. look at these these silly silly ignorant neurotypicals contradicting themselves 🙃
hi i am autustic i have no empathy i also have a so called “strong sense of justice.” we exist. what you say is not a gotcha. it just shows how shallow of an understanding of autism is.
if you’re an autistic w high empathy, great! stop punching down at autistic w low empathy or people w low empathy in general.
are you saying people with low empathy don’t have a sense of justice? that we don’t know right from wrong? people with low empathy are incapable of justice? people w low empathy are always criminals or bigoted? that we should just all be locked up? because even if you never explicitly said that, your rhetoric aligns with the rest of people who perpetuate ableism at autistics with low empathy and people w cluster b personality disorders. it can easily be extended.
people need to learn the difference between empathy, sympathy, and compassion.
also, a strong sense of justice isn’t even a great way to put it. autistics online in social justice circles throw this around as if autistics are immune to propaganda and prejudice. as if autistics are always good and pure.
overwhelming amount of incels are autistic men (esp those who is/would be diagnosed as having asperger’s).
strong sense of justice just means many of us, when we believe something, we believe something very strongly. similar to how when we like something, we like something very strongly (special interest). when we feel something, we feel something very strongly (or the opposite).
if your only experience w autistic people are autistic people who are late dx, lower support needs, speaking, and **in social justice circles with the same belief as you**, you can’t reach a conclusion about all of autism based on this very narrow experience of autistic people.