• Liz@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    It is half the classroom, or is it more like 5%? Because the autistic rate is somewhere around 2%, so you would probably expect a slightly higher rate of people to guess they’re autistic when you’re dealing with a population known for struggling to understand themselves.

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      5 months ago

      That’s the core of my statement, if it’s only 5% then that’s good and we can work with that. If it’s half then something is wrong with what the class thinks.

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        5 months ago

        You’re not making any sort of factual statement, you’re making a series of suppositions about people you’ve not met without any underlying evidence or even a firm idea on what problem you say you’re identifying.

        You’re sharing your (uninformed) opinion and expecting others to give it weight.

        • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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          5 months ago

          They’re neither factual statements, nor suppositions. They’re conditional statements.

          This person is stating a fact about the overall landscape of the possible realities.

          IF we ever find ourselves in a situation where 50% of people think they might be autistic, THEN we have a problem with the mentality.

          The word IF removes a clause from the role of assertion.

          The opinion is the entire IF-THEN connection, not any of the clauses inside it.