>>14067718>Are you saying that NTs use this thinking style when someone does something unconventional,Frankly, autistic people are no less likely to engage in that kind of we vs. them thinking. It's rather a comment on how psychiatric research has a tendency to automatically regard anything that is associated with autism (or ADHD etc. for that matter) as wrong, pathological and disordered. Psychiatric research is full of such value judgments and I believe, it's really only about we vs. them thinking. It's interesting how such petty things pervade even the most 'professional' fields but I firmly believe in the biology of human behavior so this doesn't surprise me.
>If it's the latter, then how does it come into play exactly when encountering a simple logic problem?It doesn't come into play when we're talking about simple logic problems but that's not the point and it's not what these studies show either. The studies (and there is more than just one) done on 'autistic' vs 'neurotypical' decision making don't revolve around simple logic problems.
They usually revolve around social decision making or judgments of things that incorporate optical and other kind of illusions, mostly things where it's your neurology rather than your psychology that biases the perception of reality. It's in such settings where the 'autistic' perform more rationally or less biased (whatever way you want to call it) than the 'non-autistic'. Autistic people also place less value on insider and outsider categories, meaning that their social decision making is fairer than the 'neurotypical' one. Basically, autistic decision making works in high-trust societies but won't work at all in low-trust societies. Maybe, that's one of the reasons why autism has only recently turned into a problem.
