“Autistic people can’t acknowledge when they’re wrong”
I read this as being strongly opinionated and egocentric..<p>I want to call it &quot;ausplaining&quot;, this tendency to go &quot;no no, YOU don&#x27;t understand ME (because I&#x27;m special, not because I&#x27;m wrong)&quot; whenever we get ourselves into situations like the exemplified.<p>I do this  A LOT as well, and when people do stick with me for long enough, I often find that I&#x27;m either getting my point across by re-framing my explanation, or discover that what I&#x27;m pursuing as oh_so_important is in fact not important for the question at hand (then I feel even more stupid, because, not only did I find this of paramount importance, but everyone else didn&#x27;t even consider it (because it so clearly didn&#x27;t matter)).<p>&gt; Because I value learning, I read about 50 technical books every year<p>If the author reads this, I&#x27;d congratulate them on finding the time to do that, but also advice them to maybe read 40 technical books every year, and then read 10 about the topics they clearly do struggle with (social interactions, politics, negotiation, psychology)..<p>The opinion reads as &quot;I&#x27;m right and the world is wrong&quot; to me, maybe because I can strongly relate (except the parts about reading tons of books and being really smart).<p>I think the author would benefit from realizing that these things they dismiss as irrelevant (mind games&#x2F;politics) are actually important and beneficial to understand and master (I am not saying it should be that way, but merely point out that it is, in fact that way).<p>The author may also benefit from investing some of their mental capital (I&#x27;m not being sarcastic, they&#x27;re obviously very intelligent) into learning how to play the games, to figure out neurotypicals enough to communicate with them on their level&#x2F;terms.<p>Yes, workplaces need to be accommodating, but in the end, no matter who we are, it&#x27;s our ultimate responsibility, to ourselves, to learn how to function in this world.<p>As for the situation where the other party is factually wrong.. Well, yes.. I always imagine this situation, where I have the right of way on my bicycle, and it&#x27;s the semi-truck that must yield.. There are a fair number of times where being right does not matter.