Autistic people are usually portrayed as change-adverse, and a lot of times traditional-tending people, and for sure some are, i have meet a few, but at the same time, a lot of new or alternative stuff is full to the brim of autists as well, like here, the Fediverse, is reasonably easy to find autists here, linux is another great example, linux spaces are full of linux-autist too.

In my experience, some autistic people are way more open to give a chance to new or different stuff than most people, not all autists, for sure, but many enough to notice this pattern, i think all people i have ever convinced to try linux are autistic, not even a single NT.

  • RandomUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    this may be a generalisation, but is it that the new thing is within the autistic person’s field of interest so it’s not a new change, but legitimate continued research?

    I’m not so change averse as surprise averse. The things I do habitually are because they work for me and I have no further need to think about them. Of something gets in the way of the habits i need to start thinking about it again, and that is annoying. In my field however I’m highly creative and take every opportunity to explore new ideas.

    I am also very tolerant of lack of change, I an for example east the same lunch every day for years without a problem.

    I think almost anyone can accept of change, as much as anyone can be against it. It just needs to be managed appropriately and at the correct rate.