Leo can't fix you because you are Neurodivergent

[Hojo]

@Joseph Maynor I didnt want to go at all but everyone around me was telling me too.

[Human Mint]

On 22/1/2026 at 10:42 PM, Cred said:

Lol this is literally the funniest thing you could have said. I'm not even sure if you're trolling. Let me be very clear: This thing that you said is absolutely 100% solid proof that you're autistic and don't understand how neurotypical people function. It is the definition of autism.

Non autostic people do all the steps of socializing completely automatic without even thinking a single thought in the process. That's what it means to not be autistic.

Maybe you've got a point there. I would have to ask people that can't live without socializing and feel worthless if they don't if this is the case for them.

Edited 1 hour ago by Human Mint

[Human Mint]

16 hours ago, theleelajoker said:

Ok last one for you

(from other meme thread, slightly changed)

This is funny

[Human Mint]

17 hours ago, Carl-Richard said:

Anybody want to take this test? It's supposed to diagnose autism:

https://embrace-autism.com/reading-the-mind-in-the-eyes-test/

I remember I scored 34/36 the first time I took it (higher score indicates less autism). So that would mean I'm supremely not-autistic. But you could say I'm neurodivergent, because it's way outside the normal range (the range in a sample of n = 19 neurotypicals was 23-30).

17/36

I didn't like the result. I thought this was subjective, didn't expect there were correct answers lol. Like how can you possible know for sure how someone feels? 

For example instead of aghast I chosed distrustful, and they technically go hand in hand but aparently I was wrong.

[Joshe]

41 minutes ago, Human Mint said:

17/36

You autistic af bro. 😂

[Human Mint]

1 minute ago, Joshe said:

You autistic af bro. 😂

I don't know how to feel about it.

[Natasha Tori Maru]

@Carl-Richard 35/36

What does this mean? 

I know I am an excellent profiler of people. My dad actually sends me to meetings just to scope out body language and facial expression. My colleague does all minutes so I can focus on that. Then I speak to stakeholders one on one in follow-up video calls under the guise of general clarity and agendas. I use AI to record the conversation and profile them, take notes regarding what they emphasise, how the conversation is directed and what they volunteer as information unprompted. These are the keys to subconscious motivations.

Then after first meeting, I submit a small profile of each stakeholder. This helps us develop relationships with these members, because often we work with them repeatedly across projects because they really enjoy working with us. I'll admit it's a lot of manipulation, but it's for a good cause (building hospitals within budget, time and to maximum profit).

I've been almost 100% correct with my profiles so far. One guy totally had me stumped though, be was so emotionally and expressively flat I couldn't really gauge his needs. We work with these project managers/architects/consultants and clients for a year at a time. Sometimes more. So it is worth the time investment. This all comes quite naturally to me, so it is not an effort to do on top of my usual work because I am fascinated by what motives people. 

Due to the above I am really unsure if I fit any sort of label...

[Joshe]

18 minutes ago, Human Mint said:

I don't know how to feel about it.

Yeah, I was jk. That test can't tell if someone is ND.

 

[Carl-Richard]

@Natasha Tori Maru

There is this model that places autism and psychosis on a continuum. Autism in this model is more concrete, less able to make inferences, while psychosis is abstract and makes loose inferences.

And this inference-making process is thought to be grounded in picking up on social cues and using them to derive conclusions about a person's internal state (that's where it comes from, and it makes sense phylogenetically, as the cortex grows out of the limbic system).

It's not necessarily that the autistic person is blind to the facial expressions, but it's that their brain doesn't connect it to an inference about an internal state. In other words, according to the model, you're psychotic 🙂 Like me 😀

Here's the article: https://cnl.psy.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Thakkar-Matthews-Park-2008-A-complete-theory-of-psychosis.pdf

Edited 1 hour ago by Carl-Richard

[Joshe]

The autistic person who spent decades modeling human behavior will be miles ahead NTs in Theory of Mind. The whole premise of the test seems to be that ND people have low TOM and can't read people as well and NT people can, which is simply not true. 

[Carl-Richard]

7 minutes ago, Joshe said:

Yeah, I was jk. That test can't tell if someone is ND.

 

1 hour ago, Human Mint said:

Maybe you've got a point there. I would have to ask people that socialize if this is the case for them.

👀

[UnbornTao]

1 minute ago, Carl-Richard said:

 

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That's an expression of hunger, is it not? 

[Basman]

18 hours ago, Hojo said:

Heres a better autism test, are you compelled to think about sonic the hedgehog in your adult life?

Yes
No

Yes, you have autism.

I saw a video once of an elderly Sonic living in a post-apocalyptic world ruled by Deviant Art OCs. He was being accosted by the diaper gang. They where crawling on walls and shit. I think about that sometimes.

[Carl-Richard]

On 23.1.2026 at 2:42 AM, Cred said:

Lol this is literally the funniest thing you could have said. I'm not even sure if you're trolling. Let me be very clear: This thing that you said is absolutely 100% solid proof that you're autistic and don't understand how neurotypical people function. It is the definition of autism.

Non autostic people do all the steps of socializing completely automatic without even thinking a single thought in the process. That's what it means to not be autistic.

In the model above, the autistic person would have to construct or learn concrete rules and then make inferences based on those. For non-autistic people, the inference machinery is built-in.

 

12 minutes ago, Joshe said:

The autistic person who spent decades modeling human behavior will be miles ahead NTs in Theory of Mind. The whole premise of the test seems to be that ND people have low TOM and can't read people as well and NT people can, which is simply not true. 

The test and the science around it is based on averages, as science generally is. On average, the ND/autistic strategy seems to be less efficient/effective. If you want to make a scientific study on the extremes, you can do that. Or if you consider yourself a high TOM ND, you can take the test and show us that it's wrong (score higher than @Natasha Tori Maru).

[Human Mint]

12 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

 

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I edited it and reframe it a bit... 

But in all honestly if I am autistic I would really like to know and what it entails for me.

[Carl-Richard]

15 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

That's an expression of hunger, is it not? 

Haaah good one.

Edited 1 hour ago by Carl-Richard

[Human Mint]

23 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

That's an expression of hunger, is it not? 

More like confused eyes. Jeez, I really could make stuff up about emojis and believe it. You are telling me that non autistic people don't do that? That's boring

[Basman]

29/36 ✌️😎

I think I did that test once before. When you try to "figure it out" instead of just going with the flow your more likely going to get it wrong. Could use less obscure wording though. Who the fuck uses "incredulous" to describe someone? Bro's feeling a little discombobulated. 

[Carl-Richard]

14 minutes ago, Human Mint said:

More like confused eyes. Jeez, I really could make stuff up about emojis and believe it. You are telling me that non autistic people don't do that? That's boring

You know when somebody says something ironic or off the wall or slightly off-putting and you like peel your eyes with this creepy and sometimes smirky expression? That's more around the ballpark of what I intended it to mean.

Edited 37 minutes ago by Carl-Richard

[Carl-Richard]

1 minute ago, Basman said:

Who the fuck uses "incredulous" to describe someone? Bro's feeling a little discombobulated. 

I was about to use that very word in the very last post I made (and I haven't taken the test in forever ).