Post #3542735 · Elektrine

2026-07-02 21:10 UTC

This is a bit polarising, but I do think that autistic people are black and white thinkers while at the same time we are able to find the nuances in between. I have the impression that many neurotypical people think in shades of grey, but stay away from the black and the white to be able function. This is goes into the same direction as the intense world theory and us having a spicy skill set. Some years ago I read a tweet that stated, that autistic people's memories are sharp pictures while allistic people have kind of blurred movies. I don't know if that's true, but makes sense in this context. It takes us so long to get the whole picture, but once we have it, it's very precise. We build it out of details until we understand the concept, it doesn't come to us naturally, it's hard work. I made the experience that people perceive me as negative when I am rational and do not make positive assumptions. I can face my and other people's shadows, I am not afraid of them, they don't make me sad or even depressed. At the same time I can experience ecstatic joy, also known as autistic joy, that comes across as childlike or weird to neurotypicals. So yeah, I live in the black and the white and all the colours this world has to offer. It's not rigidity, it's intensity and rationality. #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #neurodivergent @autistics@fedigroups.social

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@doggle@mastodon.online 2026-07-02 21:55

@KaCi@autistics.life > Some years ago I read a tweet that stated, that autistic people's memories are sharp pictures while allistic people have kind of blurred movies. I don't know if that's true, but makes sense in this context. FYI my experience is the opposite of this. Even as a young man my peers remembered things in far more detail than I and I've always had a worse memory for detail than most around me. I get by, I even excel, but I have to work harder than others to get to their level. @autistics@fedigroups.social

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@cybervegan@autistics.life 2026-07-02 23:04

@KaCi@autistics.life @autistics@fedigroups.social Hmm. I tend to see everything as shades of grey but find nt thinking to be reductive and all or nothing - I see a lot of nuance in things nts seem to see as black and white, but I definitely don't arrive at conclusions the same way they do, as I consider angles they often can't even see. We are, after all, a spectrum of experiences.

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@valentine@flickering.style 2026-07-02 23:08

@KaCi@autistics.life @autistics@fedigroups.social I relate to this SO MUCH!

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@pathfinder@beige.party 2026-07-03 13:14

@KaCi@autistics.life @autistics@fedigroups.social I think one of the reasons we have a reputation for restrictive black and white thinking, is that when we consider something, we really consider it, every aspect and nuance. So once we have come to a conclusion, it's no easy thing providing the information to change it. Also, so much of what we do is done to accommodate our lives. That you don't understand that, or the reasons why we have no intention of changing what works, is a you thing and not a stubbornness and being restricted thing.

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