Flutterby™! : a collective-level fail-safe feature

Psychology Today: Epistemic Injustice: The Great Gaslighting of Autistic Lives

Via and via, in linking to the latter post Manuèle Ducret @Filambulle@mastodon.social observed:

Instead of empathy deficit, autistic people demonstrate a broader moral concern, extending fairness beyond their tribes. Where researchers had assumed impairment, they found autistic people applying moral principles more consistently—even to strangers, even when costly. In a world increasingly damaged by in-group bias, this isn't a deficit; it's a collective-level fail-safe feature.