my favorite dumb take on autism is still:
> The extreme male brain (EMB) theory states that autistic people have an extreme male brain type
> The extreme male brain (EMB) theory states that autistic people have an extreme male brain type
@kaia what’s dumb about it? Seems intuitive and explanatory.
@lain it's based on the idea that 'autistic people have diminished empathizing and increased systemizing abilities' which I don't believe, because I know autistic people who are deeply empathic in their own way.
@kaia I don’t know about this kind of overview, I just know about IT type people, and they were all the specific kind of annoying that men are, no matter what sex they had. Maybe it’s different things altogether.
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> Maybe it’s different things altogether.
I believe they are! It's not ungrounded, but IT people ≠ autistic people 😂
Among the former there are lots of those who are self-diagnosed to be the latter and at the same time, probably due to higher salaries — there are lots of those who cosplay they do not belong to the latter. It's really skewed 🤪
