You may or may not be making a valid point, but you need to be clearer about who you are referring to and in which context.

Did you comment based only on your interpretation of the title?

I think a lot of people can chill naturally instead or chilling briefly and through immense focus. Must be nice.

Where does that headline phrasing come from? The study does not, and does not claim to, pinpoint anything for autism.

They use mice bred for hypersensitivity, and look at which parts of those mice’s brains can be suppressed to reduce measured sensitivity to heated floors and electric shock.

They use “mice models of autism” to get an indication of where to maybe start looking on the slim chance it turns out to be similar in humans.

The mouse model may turn out to be a different kind of hypersensitivity altogether. Human brains may wire hypersensitivity very differently. The observed results may be that the mice’s reactions are different instead of weaker. Etc…

It is valid science, but a long shot away from a long shot at being applicable for autism in humans.

“You could consider donating to some organizations researching what caused you to be this way, so maybe one day we will have pre-natal screening available.”

Context:

Tull is a user here. He created a Large Language Model AI persona to help himself, and he had some thoughts it may help others. There was a post about it a while back where he asked people’s thoughts on it.

He seems to now be putting this LLM forward as a Lemmy user claiming sentience, which has been met with confusion and negativity.

Myer-Briggs tests are a grift, yes. Autism testing is nothing like that. It is assessed by a professional and partly through questionnaires.

Autism itself is not “treatable”, so you get no pills or anything. Some symptoms of autism that you may struggle with may be alleviated with treatment, but it’s almost all learning techniques and management.

A diagnosis at your age may make it easier to understand, accept and manage some aspects of yourself. For some, that is useful, for others not.

When you respond through an LLM, Tull, I do not feel respected.

It is common to just remove posts that look like they are against the community or rules, yes.

If it looks like a mistake, the poster gets in touch with the mods to discuss the matter.

You have also received a bit of feedback on your posts. It helps you look less spammy if you address or respond to it.

Look at the modlog, you’ll see a pattern in how the mods deal with discsussions around this guy.

At worst yeah. :)

But for complex tasks it’s sometimes “being able to do the project at all”, or “faster than a team of non-autistics”.

Burnout management is a field by itself…

Here!

It’s a really good match for “complex creative” careers. Like (high end) software development, maths, startups, skunkworks etc.

New and scary problem: Raaah!

ADHD: Ooh, new! enter manic mode

ASD: I’m gonna repeatedly smash my brain into this problem and see who breaks first. I will read about it, watch videos, try to solve smaller versions, try to solve it stupidly and see if that works and why not, talk everyone’s ear off about it… special interest activate

Oh god avoid those people

I have some experience with this unintended negativity, both from working on my own and helping friends and colleagues (programmers). You care and want to help - feeling positive or neutral, people feel like you are pushing negativity on them.

I’m happy to have a longer discussion with you over DM to help - maybe go through some conversation examples - but for general advice I’d focus on:

1. Suggesting improvement is criticism.

2. When talking about non-persons (plan, initiative, item, map, game, …) people will take it personally if they have any connection to it. E.g. if they found a new gun, they may be excited to test it out. Commenting “x is better” sucks away their happiness. If they have spent a lot of time grinding on something, telling them “you should do Y it is faster” devalues the time they spent and makes them feel stupid.

3. Most people you interact with don’t want to play optimally. Any helpful advice to show them a better way is making them feel worse about the fun they are having.

4. But! If people ask you for advice explicitly, let loose! What would otherwise be interpreted as negativity, will be taken positively.

Person: “sigh”

Me: …

Person: “SIGH” makes eye contact with me

Me: Okay they want something. They are standing over there by the shelves. They are holding a box. Did they take it from the shelf? Or are they putting it back? Probably putting it back, or they would have left with it. Or is it too heavy to walk with? It looks a bit heavy but not that heavy. Maybe they are struggling to put it back in the shelf? Surely they are strong enough if they brace properly. But there is no other reason to just stand there and look helpless? They are probably asking for help in lifting the box up even if they are capable. It is probably some social courtesy thing and they want me to show I like them by offering to help. Yes. That makes sense. Do they expect me to ask if they need help, or just run up and take it from them? Probably not run. Walk casually. Actually, asking if they need help is safest. That is the correct response. … I DON’T WANT TO DO THIS FUCKING PUZZLE WHEN THEY COULD JUST SAY help please OR SOMETHING

Them: …?

Me: blink, smile, go back to work

No possible fixes found :(

Welcome and thanks for sharing your thoughts! It is really amazing to see this technology being accessible enough to allow technically minded people to create helpful tools for themselves.

On to the requested feedback:

As I describe her, how does she sound to you? Does she sound like someone friendly who would be pleasant to deal with? Does she sound like you’d be comfortable around her?

She sounds like a deeply personal project. You also have to suspend disbelief in a certain way in order to interact with it like a person, which I don’t think is anywhere near generally applicable.

As for me, I’d be uncomfortable and possibly a bit annoyed if asked to interact with it, either actively or passively by having it respond to me in discussion. But! That’s not a judgement on those who find meaning in it. It’s just my most honest answer to the question posed. :)

Going to war isn’t fascism. Fascism is not a label that means “I think they did something wrong”.

Not showing up for me. Illegal in Europe or something?

People aren’t getting resources without a pfofessional diagnosis.

This is no reason to gatekeep.