I’ve read that neurodiverse brains are more likely to process risk appropriately, in that we think risks apply to us and are more likely to preemptively act appropriately to avoid the risk.
Neurotypical brains are more likely to subconsciously think, “Wow, bummer that that bad thing happened to you. It’s a good thing that that won’t happen to me because I Am Special and Somehow Protected.” Sometimes that sense of being above risks gets disrupted by having something bad happen to them; other times it just shifts to, “Bummer that that bad thing happened to me, but now that it’s already happened it’s finished and won’t happen again to me.”
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Re: cognitive dissonance are us
Date: 2023-03-25 02:34 pm (UTC)Neurotypical brains are more likely to subconsciously think, “Wow, bummer that that bad thing happened to you. It’s a good thing that that won’t happen to me because I Am Special and Somehow Protected.” Sometimes that sense of being above risks gets disrupted by having something bad happen to them; other times it just shifts to, “Bummer that that bad thing happened to me, but now that it’s already happened it’s finished and won’t happen again to me.”