@KatyElphinstone I kind of didn't express myself in that really - too many context/caveat things

basically autistic brains are spending a load of their time thinking "What does this person want from me here" AND non autistic people are thinking "I understand this situation completely" despite having not really thought about it

there will always be a mismatch

@KatyElphinstone (context - I'm NT but my three children are AuDHD as is their mother)

I totally get why people sometimes think Autistic empathy isn't there - but in my experience it is nearly always the logic (& the amount of times I've had to explain to A. [childrens mother] how NT people are 'thinking' or rather the "script" they are operating from)

As you say there is a lot of normative assumption in the question - why isn't the person who told Janet the jellyfish are harmless to blame?

started reading @cstross latest (bit sad when the UK being taken over by evil god king is light escapism from modern life....)

the bit at the start about conspiracy theories and having to convince civil servants that some of them are actually true is a bit on the nose......

(at least Stross got the book out _before_ reality started doing a number on his work )

@cstross the fact they are stupid enough to fall for it is the thing I'm finding infuriating (& I've had enough personal experience of investors, them thinking they are brilliant all the while knowing nothing and constant group think to be pretty bitter about this) - like - this, OBVIOUS, grift - works

the worship of the rich, as though they are somehow more insightful than the rest of us, while watching them exposed as dubious people & marks falling for cheap tricks is depressing.

@FrazzledBrynn Oh! Definitely go and see them up close! they are ace (the one in the picture is really old and not that big but it's in a place that's a good walk)