Already jumped ship

Outside of the ones attempting to use militancy as a cover, You so rarely hear that kind of person saying "it's bad to do that". It's always "you must be doing that", I guess with the concluding "too" omitted.

I wouldn't even say they're in denial. I think they genuinely believe most people are like themselves, and they're calling them out, not on their actions, but on their (imagined) hypocrisy. "If I were you I'd do that, so you must be doing it. So you saying it's bad to do that is hypocrisy."

You're giving vibe casters a lot of credit there, saying they're the ones enchanting the bookshelves. It takes nothing to just summon Belphegor and ask him for a pre-enchanted one.

Must have caught them while eating at Goodtime Dragon

I also think a lot of common autistic traits, like hyper-empathy and justice sensitivity, exist *because* of how imaginative autistic people are, and if anything, have a harder time of turning off their imagination.

I'm now wondering if being selectively imaginative is a symptom of neurotypicality.

I am extremely imaginative. A part of that is the ability to imagine consequences. It's harder to maintain suspension of disbelief within a system that doesn't make logical sense. If I'm creating a story, it has to make sense. It's the presence of imagination, not the lack, that causes this.

I imagine this stems from a lack of imagination from the people who decided this. It's like the whole "autistic people don't experience empathy" thing. They couldn't conceive of someone experiencing things differently to them, so described them as lacking without considering what they are instead.

There are obvious problems with the knuckles thing (can't wear too-small shoes at all, stubbing is more painful, etc), but the weird thing was when I'd get that need to click a painfully locked-up joint on one of those knuckles. Found that I had just enough mobility in them to click them *sideways*.

Never had any particularly serious or interesting injuries, but my go-to fact is that I do not have knuckles in my big toes. My parents did not realise until I was 12 (despite trimming my nails as a young kid), and I just assumed *having* knuckles was the weird way to be.

But if someone's made a lot of mistakes, I'm more likely to speak up on it because at that point, something should probably be done about it.

If someone seems competent, I'm probably gonna assume I was the one who made the mistake in misspeaking, or let it slide because reporting is a lot of effort, like if you've been given the wrong food at a restaurant (that you're not unwilling to eat) and don't want to bother the wait staff.

The paper they reference mentions asking them about why they made their decision, but this one seems to only note whether a participant speaks up on an error, and is wholly attributing that to the awareness of the error, and in no part to the social aspect of reporting it once noticed.

This paper reads like they're attributing a lot of intent to the participants' actions without verifying it.

I think as a kid (also UK, growing up in the 90s), we'd put video tapes in the vhs player, probably because the device had a big "VHS" printed on the flap.