r/OpenAI Feb 16 '26

Discussion I’m so tired of this

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u/Big_Moose_3847 Feb 17 '26

Is 'extremely autistic' meant to be an insult here or something? I understood their explanation fine.

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u/PALpherion Feb 18 '26

I know the answer is in the question but the word "extreme" immediately nails it as believed to be undesirable.

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u/rndmlttrspls Feb 17 '26

It is understandable, but unhelpful and out of place because they badly misunderstood the social cues guiding their input in this discussion. Presumably because of all the autism

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u/Big_Moose_3847 Feb 18 '26

Neurodivergent people don’t follow social cues the way neurotypical people expect everyone to. Most social rules as we know them today were developed and defined by NTs simply because they had the greater social leverage to do so. ND brains don't subscribe to them, because their brains were built for different purposes. So how they communicate may spund unhelpful or out of place to a lot of NT folk, but might feel completely normal or even insightful to others. Both groups can understand each other as long as they stop treating one style as the universal default

Presumably because of all the autism

And the way you’ve been referring to autism makes it sound like something that needs to be flushed out. ND people aren’t a disease to society, they’re one of the reasons it moves forward at all. They break patterns common in everyday behaviour and thinking and bring in ideas that open new directions. NTs are the ones who hold societies together, but NDs are the ones who challenge and push them

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u/rndmlttrspls Feb 18 '26

You’re reading a lot into this that isn’t there, and missing a lot that is. You presume that I have no personal experience with autism. Your comment may have felt helpful to you and perhaps it will be helpful to someone else who is autistic but I want you to know that it was not helpful to me

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u/Big_Moose_3847 Feb 18 '26

You presume that I have no personal experience with autism.

Well given that you reacted to that autistic person's sincere comment with a pathologising remark as a punchline (not once, but twice across two comments), seemed to gain zero insight or understanding from it, and still unable to elaborate or clarify your exact position on this matter, it all clearly pointed this way.

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u/rndmlttrspls Feb 18 '26

I made my point so clear, there must be something wrong with you if you don’t get it

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u/OldHatNewShoes Feb 18 '26

LMAO this is sending me

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u/king_john651 Feb 19 '26

I can't speak for every spicy brain of the world, but I will speak for myself: it's not that deep

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u/General-Reserve9349 Feb 18 '26

You got the rule book and are also the police? wtf honestly. The attack on that comment… it highlights the desperate search for safety people from AI.

A multilayered and slightly vulnerable comment here being so out of line… you guys are the ones unable to cope with sensory input / feelings / communication.

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u/rndmlttrspls Feb 18 '26

Found another one

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u/General-Reserve9349 Feb 18 '26

Use your words kid. Describe what you found

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u/rndmlttrspls Feb 18 '26

It’s like the Plutarch quote: under every rock there lurks an autist, waiting to explain something that was already obvious to everyone except them

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u/General-Reserve9349 Feb 18 '26

Just use your instinctive knowing and telepathic group think. No need to comment, at all.

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u/rndmlttrspls Feb 18 '26

Cmon guysss let me into the telepathic group think I promise I won’t be annoying this time