Atavistic Autist
Intersectional autistic supremacy
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As autism awareness has increased, it has become a sort of social justice issue to insist that females are just as likely to be autistic as males, but that autism in females tends to present differently than autism in males.
Autistic females are said to "mask" their symptoms better by mimicking their peers, and this claim appears to have some basis in reality, because females in general are more socially conformist and therefore more proficient in social mimicry/pantomime, whereas males in general are more independent-minded and therefore more socially awkward/estranged (whether autistic or not).
Yet, at the same time, narcissism is said to be more of a male psychopathology than a female psychopathology, and there is no interest in the idea that this might be a flawed perception, despite evidence to the contrary.
What makes this doubly ironic is the fact that the exact psychodynamic mechanism which enables females to mimic their peers better than males appears to be precisely a finer tuned sense of narcissism, which motivates one to copy the mannerisms of one's peers out of a desire to be accepted among one's peers (this is said to be the "prosocial" component of narcissism, explaining things such as virtue signalling, and it ultimately leads to a competition of attempting to outdo others in your professions and expressions of social conformity).
Autistic females are said to "mask" their symptoms better by mimicking their peers, and this claim appears to have some basis in reality, because females in general are more socially conformist and therefore more proficient in social mimicry/pantomime, whereas males in general are more independent-minded and therefore more socially awkward/estranged (whether autistic or not).
Yet, at the same time, narcissism is said to be more of a male psychopathology than a female psychopathology, and there is no interest in the idea that this might be a flawed perception, despite evidence to the contrary.
What makes this doubly ironic is the fact that the exact psychodynamic mechanism which enables females to mimic their peers better than males appears to be precisely a finer tuned sense of narcissism, which motivates one to copy the mannerisms of one's peers out of a desire to be accepted among one's peers (this is said to be the "prosocial" component of narcissism, explaining things such as virtue signalling, and it ultimately leads to a competition of attempting to outdo others in your professions and expressions of social conformity).
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