Huh. I'm not autistic but keep getting told I have some similar traits, and yeah, I'm pretty much completely incapable of feeling anything about people dying per se. Always figured it was the effect of decades in a headspace where I envied the dead too much to be sad, but it might just be a thing?
August 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Huh. I'm not autistic but keep getting told I have some similar traits, and yeah, I'm pretty much completely incapable of feeling anything about people dying per se. Always figured it was the effect of decades in a headspace where I envied the dead too much to be sad, but it might just be a thing?
There might be another name for this but I think of it as the Socrates fallacy because this was basically his method -- we have a word, so let's clarify the definition so that we can correctly identify the real thing in the world that it names.
August 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
There might be another name for this but I think of it as the Socrates fallacy because this was basically his method -- we have a word, so let's clarify the definition so that we can correctly identify the real thing in the world that it names.
Just b/c history has given us these two words doesn't mean that speculative literature naturally falls into two distinct categories that can be correctly labeled with these words. Likewise attraction to more than one gender doesn't necessarily come in two distinct forms just b/c we have two words.
August 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Just b/c history has given us these two words doesn't mean that speculative literature naturally falls into two distinct categories that can be correctly labeled with these words. Likewise attraction to more than one gender doesn't necessarily come in two distinct forms just b/c we have two words.