starsong-dragonheart: newtsoda: There has been a lot of research about autistics over the years, but
starsong-dragonheart: newtsoda: There has been a lot of research about autistics over the years, but this one really took the cake!This is what happened when researchers attempted to compare the moral compass of autistic and non-autistic people… link to the study:https://www.jneurosci.org/content/41/8/1699Y'all, this damn thing is actually WORSE than the comic shows. Not only is the sample laughably small, with far too heavy a reliance on post hoc analysis, they straight up say that autistic folks can’t process social context well enough to realize that they should make different decisions when there’s not an audience judging them, and that this is probably just because autistic folks have trouble with mental rigidity, and equate it to repetitive behavior in autistics. Couldn’t possibly be that autistic people are following their morals intentionally, clearly we just can’t think it through.One of the most infuriating parts of this is how the language suddenly changes when this is studied in allistic folks: stimulate brain regions in allistic people that elicit the same patterns of behaviors, and suddenly they’re categorized as simply “more altruistic”.Autistic people who stick to their principles are unable to flexibly weigh benefit to self against harm to others in varying social contexts, and fail to realize that they should consider social reputation when deciding whether or not to do something immoral, and generally think that immorality is worse than it really is. Allistics are just “more altruistic.”They’re talking about us the way they talk about animals who can’t tell us what’s going on in their heads that they’re desperately trying not to anthropomorphize. They’re talking about us the way white scientists used to talk about racialized groups they considered sub-human.And this is in the journal for the Society of Neuroscience. One of the most respected journals in neuroscience. Even if I hadn’t become disabled, I was leaving neuroscience as a discipline for a ton of good fucking reasons. The brain is absolutely worth studying scientifically, but the field has a sickening amount of unaddressed rot, morally and scientifically. (seriously, you can’t draw much of any conclusions from a sample that small and a rat’s nest of post hoc analysis) -- source link