The (arguable) subculture of autism fits well with this, as with "rules" regarding structure or sequence which may be incomprehensible to nonautistic observers. Also with autistic folks' view/opinion of nonautistic social practices, if "bogus" is substituted for "not real", or perhaps "arbitrary" vs. "reasonable" or "square" vs. "hip"?

Is "real" vs. "not real" a matter of respect with regard to social matters? Does "not real" mean "disregarded"? The act of producing something "not real" could itself be interpreted as a real act of disrespect, insult, boorishness, or the like.

Incomprehensibility of rules due either to their apparent triviality (if the "what" of the rule is understood without the "why") or their utter mystery (where neither the "what" nor the "why" is understood). And rules can assign artificially-high value to any given attribute - that’s how quite a number of NT rules appear to me anyhow.

Last revised: June 17, 2007
(c)2007 Dave Spicer
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