Rigid! Autistic woman stubbornly changes opinions when she receives new information
Added 2025-01-21 11:00:04 +0000 UTC
Piece by Sara Gibbs, Image Shutterstock
An autistic woman has been accused of “inflexible black-and-white thinking” after insisting on constantly changing her pre-existing conceptions when new information comes to light.
According to loved ones, Lottie Fitzgerald, 32, stubbornly refuses to stick with her initial knee-jerk reactions simply because she’s “found out stuff that’s changed her mind.”
Her sister, Krista Shure, 35, explained: “Lottie’s autistic rigidity has caused so much stress for those around her. We used to love Harry Potter but since she found out Rowling likes to spend her time in mouldy castles calling random athletes ‘blokes’, she’s been boycotting the whole thing.”
“I tried to challenge her to broaden her horizons,” Shure continued. “I asked her why she can’t just stick with what she thought she knew. She just said ‘because I’m a scientist.’ What’s that got to do with anything?”
Fitzgerald said: “I guess I’m a black-and-white thinker, in that I’m pretty black-and-white about opinions I’ve formed by taking myriad factors into account and constantly challenging my own belief system. Yeah, I’d say I’m fairly rigid about that.”
Comments
This along with "strong sense of justice" are the biggest "symptoms" that make societal integration difficult. "Why won't you just bend your will, your knee, and your reality to fit everyone else's? Your sister is a good capitalist pawn -- why can't you be more like her?"
Kate
2025-01-21 19:37:02 +0000 UTC
