This sounds kind of plausible to me, but couldnât you equally say that youâd expect autism to be mitigating factor to cultiness, because cults are about conformity to group shibboleths for social reasons which autistic people are better at avoiding ? (At least, Iâd have thought we are. Maybe only I have that perception?) That kind of makes me think that actually it is just easy to generate plausible-sounding hypothesis about the effects of a fairly broad and nebulous thing like âautistic traitsâ and maybe none of them should be taken that seriously without statistical evidence to back them up.
This sounds kind of plausible to me, but couldnât you equally say that youâd expect autism to be mitigating factor to cultiness, because cults are about conformity to group shibboleths for social reasons which autistic people are better at avoiding ? (At least, Iâd have thought we are. Maybe only I have that perception?) That kind of makes me think that actually it is just easy to generate plausible-sounding hypothesis about the effects of a fairly broad and nebulous thing like âautistic traitsâ and maybe none of them should be taken that seriously without statistical evidence to back them up.