Taru Luojola @Stoori@polyglot.city

sneaking gender neutral language into app translations like a parent putting broccoli in the bolognaise 🕵🏼‍♀️

@datenteiler @albin @aral There's a difference between "right/ability to tinker" and "requires tinkering to work".

https://twitter.com/AgainstCures/status/1119959027427864577?s=19

This is an...interesting paper about reward motivation in autistic people versus NTs.

Honestly it's really dense and mostly based on faulty assumptions: "well-established theory of mind deficits in Autistic people"

"Knowing that autistic people are only concerned about physical rewards and not helping others"

But the study basically found that all their assumptions were wrong.

Like we're still motivated by wanting to help other people, just not by social rewards that aren't real to begin with, they're all about appearances.

Social rewards are the one of the biggest things motivating most Autistic Self-advocates. We want the world to be a better place for other people. We want to help the kids who are like us.

It's not about becoming rich or famous, it's about following our own moral code.

The neurotypical controls performed better when they received a monetary reward than a social one. Autistic people performed the same on both.

This makes a lot of sense to me, as someone who is not all that motivated by money or physical things.

I am motivated by wanting to help others or because I'm passionate about something.

I think we are motivated by social rewards, just not social rewards that require conformity to be liked, be popular etc.

It seems to me that our motivations just tend to be quite different from NTs, but that doesn't mean there's something "impaired" about them.

I was trying to explain to my mom that trying to shame or guilt me into doing something I don't want to do does not help. I need to want to do it, or see how it can help other people.

Shame and guilt don't motivate me, they just make me want to rebel more and lash out.

Decided to start up a #Matrix Community for Translators:
https://matrix.to/#/+translators:matrix.org

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