Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including those who otherwise require less support, face severe difficulties in everyday social interactions. Research in this area has primarily focused on identifying the cognitive and neurological differences that contribute to these social impairments, but social interaction by definition involves more than one person and social difficulties may arise not just from people with ASD themselves, but also from the perceptions, judgments, and social decisions made by those around them. Here, across three studies, we find that first impressions of individuals with ASD made from thin slices of real-world social behavior by typically-developing observers are not only far less favorable across a range of trait judgments compared to controls, but also are associated with reduced intentions to pursue social interaction. These patterns are remarkably robust, occur within seconds, do not change with increased exposure, and persist across both child and adult age groups. However, these biases disappear when impressions are based on conversational content lacking audio-visual cues, suggesting that style, not substance, drives negative impressions of ASD. Collectively, these findings advocate for a broader perspective of social difficulties in ASD that considers both the individual’s impairments and the biases of potential social partners.
People are still gonna react negatively to a faux pas even in FALGSC star trek future
On the plus side, in such a future you wouldn’t have to worry about those negative reactions resulting in you becoming homeless, starving, and without medical care because your dickhead manager fired you for “not being a team player”
The classlessness is what will give them the breathing room to reexamine their first reaction and personally grow like at the end of a TNG episode. Likewise we NDs would be less awkward because less shunned and traumatized in our development.
My hypothesis is that the neurotypicals’ miserliness with their curiosity and hypervigilance around hierarchy is massively inflamed by the pressures capital places on them, and the stubborn snap judgments are the honed adaptation of a depleted and degraded creature. I believe staying weirdly judgmental and incurious in a classless society, one that isn’t marinating in capitalism’s nonstop threats and scarcities, would itself become a greater faux pas.