Autism Terminology

Rooting Behavioural Taxonomy, in Models of Pleasure

Since I've recently made some friends in the autist-activist community ... and since the language in all its fuzziness is now so broadly used, I decided to revise my understanding of what autism means.

I am now reading the history of the term. I wonder if, it is generally understood that autists simply express a different model of pleasure, rather than being impaired in certain functionalities. Then again, I suppose that's equivalent to saying that "normal social function" is defined by having a specific mode/l of pleasure. 

Cute, people, very cute ...

---

Aside. Monotropism defining autism ... I'm not sure if it's fair to called this a superficial assessment. Of course, an orthogonal distribution of interests might be misinterpreted to be a monomodal distribution. However it might be the case that orthogonal or not, the characteristics of an autist tend to be more narrowly distributed than those of non-austists. This data set remain to be formalised. ( See : Double-empathy problem )

Aside. Weak central coherence theory ... logically : we would say that autism is characterised by a bias towards deductive reasoning ( computation / information processing ), away from inductive reasoning ( computation / information processing ). The bias may be hypothesised to be due to intrinsic capability.

Aside. Alexithymia ... "less active random number generator".