A few months ago my grandmother got incredibly angry at me over some perceived slight due to not responding correctly in some interaction, and I tried to explain to her that as an autistic person I often do not pick up on or understand social expectations in social situations, and her response was "So what you're saying is that you don't have emotions?" and I just ???
There is this mindset "If I can't see it it doesn't exist". I saw a discussion on lemmy.world where an anti-vegan claimed that animals don't have emotions since they can't speak, so it's ok to kill them if it can be done painlessl. They stopped arguing that point when I pointed out that by his logic I could eat my newborn.
Not too long ago the mentality was that babies can't feel pain and so they underwent surgery without anesthetic, in general there is a lot of horrible child abuse that was seen as normal child rearing since the baby/child couldn't articulate themselves in a way they were used to.
A few months ago my grandmother got incredibly angry at me over some perceived slight due to not responding correctly in some interaction, and I tried to explain to her that as an autistic person I often do not pick up on or understand social expectations in social situations, and her response was "So what you're saying is that you don't have emotions?" and I just ???
I do not understand why this assumption is made.
Alltistics: If you dont have emotions "correctly" you dont have emotions.
Emotions are the face movements you do when situation 2 happens.
There is this mindset "If I can't see it it doesn't exist". I saw a discussion on lemmy.world where an anti-vegan claimed that animals don't have emotions since they can't speak, so it's ok to kill them if it can be done painlessl. They stopped arguing that point when I pointed out that by his logic I could eat my newborn.
Not too long ago the mentality was that babies can't feel pain and so they underwent surgery without anesthetic, in general there is a lot of horrible child abuse that was seen as normal child rearing since the baby/child couldn't articulate themselves in a way they were used to.