The Intersectionality of Autism and Trans

Jordan Peterson - Autism

Psychology Professor discusses autism in this video. He talks about some of the life of Temple Grandin, a famous autistic woman, and some interesting ways in which people with autism think and behave.

That's again something, as well, that you would think any honest Social Justice actor would immediately want to get into and attempt to try to sort out -- The Intersectionality Between 'Autism' and 'Trans' . The fact that they don't -- that actually in fact goes a long way towards explaining a great deal.... 

It explains completely, for instance, the seemingly spontaneous, wholly disproportionate targeting, demonisation and vilification of the whole  'KAREN' StrawMan identity construct.... Since Jenny McCarthy is held to be the archetypical 'Karen' and she is the Poster-Child and Standard Bearer for the "Anti-Vaxx" Safe Vaccine Movement of Concerned Parents.

“….and The Cows didn’t like anything 

that wasn’t supposed to be there, basically,

 and they had a hell of a lot of difficulty

with trying to map it, properly —”

"Now here's.... 

Here's Something Interesting -- 

You can Think about this for a minute :

I went and saw an autistic woman speak, at one point; 

Her Name was Temple Grandin, she's really worth looking-up : -- Temple Grandin is a very interesting person; she [was] very seriously autistic, when she was a child, but Her Mother and her worked her out of it, so that she could be she's very functional she works as a professor I don't remember where it's in the Midwest somewhere now she's famous not only for being a highly functional autistic person who talks a fair bit about what it's like to be autistic but also for designing slaughterhouses across the United States and the reason she can do that as far as she's concerned is because she thinks She Thinks like An Animal Thinks and so she doesn't and she's identified maybe at least part of what the core problem is with Autism.

So, the talk I heard her out was in Arizona and and it was a was a really entrancing talk; she showed some really interesting pictures of animals --

So, what she's done is she's redesigned slaughterhouses so that when the animals enter the slaughterhouse, they go in, like, a spiral, basically; they can't see what's around The Corner and the walls are high so they're not distracted by anything outside --

The Railway Series - James and the Bootlace

"We're going to stop;" 

said The Coaches

"We're going to stop --"

So, one of the things she showed for example was a bunch of cows going through a standard sequence of of gates essentially and off to the side there was A Windmill spinning and The Cows would stop because The Windmill...

They didn't understand what The Windmill was and they'd stop --

Or, [she] showed other pictures where the cows were going down a pathway - and there was a coke can sitting in the middle of the pathway and the cows would all stop because they didn't know what to do with it or she had another picture of cows out in the middle of the field all surrounding a briefcase and they are all looking at the briefcase and the cows didn't like anything that shouldn't be there and had a hard time mapping it now she said here's a little exercise she did she said think of a church okay? 

So, maybe you think you imagine a child's drawing of a church a it's like your standard house like a pen tag Pentagon right which is basically how children draw the front of a house with a steeple on top and maybe a cross on top of it or something like that which actually isn't at church it's an icon of a church you think about how children draw is to Pentagon rectangle what is a trapezoid chimney almost always with smoke which is quite interesting it's I don't know where kids get that exactly but they almost always draw a chimney with smoke even though chimneys with smoke aren't that common anymore but anyways you know you can see what a child's picture of a house looks like in your imagination one of the things that you might want to think about is that is not a picture of a house at all right it's an iconic representation that's kind of like a hero glyph because no house looks like that and then you think about how a child will draw a person circle stick stick stick stick stick and you show it to someone to go that's a person it's like really it looks nothing like a person right it I mean you you immediately recognize it as a person but it looks nothing like a person 

Well, what Grandin said was that when she thinks of A Church she has to think of A Church she's seen -- she can't take The Set of "ALL Churches" and abstract out an iconic representation and use that to represent The Set of "All Churches", she has she gets fixated on a specific exemplar, and she thinks that one of the problems with autistic people -- and they have a very difficult time developing Language by the way -- is that they can't abstract out a generalised representation across A Set of Entities --

They can't abstract, and then The End.... well, and of course if you can't abstract and it's also very difficult to manipulate the abstractions you see very strange behavior with autistic children for example so they don't like people and that's because people don't stay in their perceptual boxes like a human being is a very difficult thing to perceive because we're always shifting around and moving and doing different things like we don't stay in our categorical box so autistic people have real trouble with other people but they also have trouble so for example if your autistic child gets accustomed to your kitchen let's say and you move a chair then then especially if they're severely autistic, they'll have an absolute fit about it, because -- You Think 'Kitchen, with chair-moves -- They Think, 'Completely different place -- because They can't [Don't] abstract the constancies across the different situations and represent them abstractly --