Autism

I prefer the alternative medicine, anarchy.

"Hi, I'm here to pick up my prescribed money bag."

Nah. Perceived injustice can motivate a variety of feelings and behaviors. Not all of them helpful. Not all of them good (B. Pine, C. White, M. Eisenhardt, et al).

I mean, it could be argued that neurotypicals are simply the most cohesive minority. They only account for ~40% of people, because ~60% have some sort of mental disorder. The only reason neurotypicals are the default are because they’re the largest cohesive and exclusive group. If it were a Venn diagram, 60% would be a bunch of smaller (often overlapping) circles, while the remaining 40% would be off to the side in its own circle.

So if you’re going to make assumptions about someone you just met, (and we all make assumptions. That’s how socializing works), it makes sense to assume that the person is probably in the largest group that doesn’t overlap with any of the other groups. So “neurotypical” is used as the default until we know more about the person. Not because they’re the majority, but simply because the 40% group is the easiest, most straightforward, least messy assumption to make.

~~BMW~~ drivers not signaling should get their car taken away.

Probably better to describe it as "fairness". Maybe even "stubbornness" The problem with justice/fairness is that it is ultimately subjective. And a 10-year-old's view of fairness is often divorced from principles of personal safety or propriety.

You'll see this problem with adult libertarians all the time. Everything from seat belts to sales taxes to dress codes intrude on their sense of fairness, largely because they've ingested enormous volumes of propaganda. The real joke of it is when the term "social justice" impugnes your sense of personal justice. Same with the social conservatives who get up in arms over "illegal" immigration and desegregation, environmental regulations and speed limits, prohibitions on state sanctioned religious education, and age limits on who you can marry.

A sense of justice is a very plastic (especially at a young age) and perspective oriented. Wars have been fought and rivers of blood spilled over a population's conviction of their own righteousness.

This blows my mind. Makes so much sense! edit: forgot to thank you for posting this :). Thanks!

It isn't "follow the rules", it is "do the right thing"

Big difference

Unironocally yes.

The point is the average person doesn't give a shit. That's the baseline. It's why without enforcement, no one follows rules detrimental to themselves. It's why going 50 in a 50 is considered ridiculous.

The fact that it even pisses you off enough to write that out is evidence enough lol. Maybe. Not the one thing by itself....

Source: Late diagnosed adhd, probably autistic, said the same kind of things as you before I realized I'm just.... not typical

Pretty much.

I worked in tech and there's a lot of morally gray things.

For example: the law is pretty clear on what a company should and shouldn't store as data. Yet every year, tech companies violate it. A few even get lawsuits because of how bad they did it. Thousands don't.

The engineers (many who only want to do the right thing) see it pretty clearly. Don't leak shit. Don't give out personal info. Secure that shit. Extremely clear guidelines.

But, from our higher ups, we are constantly told "ah that doesn't apply to us" and follow whatever the marketing/analytics/data team wants.

Been this way for decades.

Viscerally.

Well, kinda a combination of all of it, but when people are being greedy, selfish, ass holes instead of kind and fair and just trying to make the world or community a better place for everyone in it rather than just themselves or those they know there is an unyielding rage that begins to stir wants to MAKE them be fair and kind.

I am definitely not a rule follower by default in the sense that I identify that many rules are just a framework for compelling obedience and preserving power hierarchies. But then shit like speeding and running red lights or driving recklessly makes me furious, because these rules are not tools for subjugation or oppression in any way, they are protocols for safe coexistence which sometimes create extremely fucking minor inconveniences.

I honestly believe people who drive aggressively are just impotently asserting agency in a world they feel beat down by, because they have literally nothing going on. It's one of the most pathetic behaviors commonly present in the modern world.

Mandatory reminder that being autistic is enterely compatible with being an evil asshole. They are not mutually exclusive.

I'm vegan, btw.

Yes, but do you use Arch Linux?

I'd also posit my unqualified opinion^1^ too: I think it's the idea that the rules are inconsistent. You try to follow a system that everyone says is "blind" and impartial, only to see it just got Lasik and is very, very partial to particular people. The dissonance between experiencing injustice and insistent claims that the civilized world is fair.

If all cultures codified that "money buys clemency", there'd be a lot fewer outbursts about how unfair things are.

^1^ I'm probably not autistic, just have a lot of autistic friends.

i have had severe autism my entire life and i have never ever given a single fuck about the law.

that's because i learned pretty early on that the law is routinely wrong about major things, and there's not much of a point to believe in it too much. however, i do have a very strong sense of "justice" (though i don't call it that, and it's also significantly different than other people's ideas of justice) that i do live by very strictly.

It's built by and for psychopaths instead.

No, it’s a well-documented phenomenon called Justice Sensitivity. It can even be graded on a scale, like any other symptom of ADHD or autism. It is part of the diagnostic criteria.

Basically, lots of ADHD/autistic people tend to dislike rules, feeling like they’re restrictive for no reason… Unless they know why the rule exists. But if they know why it exists, they often tend to treat the rule as gospel, and get extremely angry and/or resentful when others don’t follow the rule. They’ll have a strong urge to correct perceived injustices, even if the injustice was relatively small or benign. “Life isn’t fair” is something that many people with ADHD/autism hear a lot, because it’s often the go-to response from neurotypicals whenever they start complaining about injustice. There’s a reason people with ADHD and autism disproportionately work as activists.