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My stages of learning to be a socially normal person

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631 points eatitraw | 1 comments | 15 Nov 25 13:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rester324 ◴[18 Nov 25 01:27 UTC] No.45960377[source]▶
Does this person have some kind of mental issue? I am seriosuly asking this, not mocking him. Because by reading through this post it stands out to me that he doesn't mention or highlights empathy. And that's where his problem stems from
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1. mettamage ◴[18 Nov 25 12:17 UTC] No.45964530[source]▶
Probably high functioning autism. They go through a process like this, and is in part why they are high functioning in the first place because they solve their problems with their intellect and train whatever else is necessary.

Though, research shows that autistic people among themselves do have empathy. So it’s not as if they don’t but it’s because they tend to communicate differently. It’s called the double empathy problem, if I recall correctly.