On: Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared atte...

[Spivak]

This is so silly because roughy 15% of people or 1 in 6 people is neurodivergent.

Or stated another way if you would feel squeamish about playing Russian Roulette then you’re making the same bet if you make judgments about someone you’re not sure is neurodivergent.

If we play this game at the margins every human in the US is female and there’s some exceptions.

Things there’s fewer of than neurodivergent people.

- people who are left handed

- the number of black americans

- people with blue eyes

- redheads

- people who live in California

[Brian_K_White → Spivak]

It says attention not enjoy.

A neurodivergant having a hard time processing something, or not liking it, is never the less devoting attention to it.

And surely there are some percentage who actually are oblivious to it rather than merely handling it poorly. But they are not 1 in 6.

But swiss cheese arguments to support percieving things as attacks are both quite typical indeed.