Ho ho. Yes, the backbone of every good community is a rigid orthodoxy.

That was sarcasm.

Go piss up a rope.

I disagree. Present your argument.

Are you sure? I mean you’re kinda splitting hairs. Lotta gray area. Lotta room for interpretation.

The thing about mental bullshit is that it’s invisible to the person who’s got it.

So look in the mirror now and then.

I was thinking less genetic and more cultural. That by good education, communication, government, diet, art… we might grow beyond our monkey nature.

But maybe the 99% will always be a monkey.

There’s a whole universe between “hostile reaction” and “bow down and worship”.

We call it “polite conversation”.

You should try it sometime.

Consider them the same topic viewed from 2 different angles

I don’t understand. You don’t like what I say? I’m ok with that. My perspective is unusual. I expected to be rejected by the 99%. I’m fishing for the 1%.

I am not speaking with reference to a stereotype. I am speaking from experience.

Maybe you worry too much about what people think.

I like the term “wizard”.

There is a thing you can do with your attention. (Call it “meditation”, but that term is so mangled in the popular nomenclature that it’s just a blur. So just leave the term for now.)

It takes a degree of control over your attention, to do this thing. Specifically, concentration. That crucial skill. You could call it our first nature, as humans. The power behind thinking and inventing. The stock-in-trade of every engineer, scientist and artist. The keystone of our modern technological, scientific culture.

The asperger/etc has concentration in spades. It is evident when you see the good engineer, scientist and artist. These strange people.

The asperger/etc has a natural skill and familiarity with the depths and powers of concentration that the “neurotypical” just can’t touch.

And he can take it further too. There’s a whole world there.

And yes. A hundred times yes. Wizard is the best word. There is real magic there. (no, not to just be come a better thinker and inventor. There’s something strange and new)

I have gone down that road a bit. I speak from experience.

You’re talking chinese to me. I don’t understand.

Ya maybe.

It’s funny. I assume that neurodivergent and unconventional thought would go together. But it seems to be not so.

I’m meeting people who fight to retain a normal narrative. Who would rather call themselves damaged than different.

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I don’t understand what you are talking about.

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That doesn’t seem very important. This quibbling over terminology.

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