This is coming from a neurodivergent guy. I just don’t get it. I mean, I know it’s probably because we act differently, but WHY EXACTLY do some people decide we’re lesser than neurotypical people?

    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      How can you know that for certain when this society is all that you have known? Isn’t it more likely that you are told these things are human nature in order to justify their existence and power over you?

      Society has changed drastically over human history and I am certain all forms of them claimed to be the purest expression of human nature.

      How do you seperate human nature from the effects our society has on it when both society and human nature constantly affect eachother in turn?

      • null@lemmy.nullspace.lolEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        Isn’t it more likely that you are told these things are human nature in order to justify their existence and power over you?

        No, that is a significantly more complicated explanation than the obvious assumption that humans, behaving according to their nature, created a society that is the result of human nature.

        • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 hours ago

          I am sorry to say that human society, which has existed and evolved for millennia, is often complex and has more to do with production and hierarchy than the expression of a nebulous human nature.

            • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              2 hours ago

              Sure, but good luck isolating which parts of our lives are derived from pure human nature and which are corrupted by the influence of societal constructs. My argument is that these things are inseperable and that analyzing social behavior through the lense of human nature can lead no where productive because we can’t know what pure human nature is. I am not arguing that human nature does not exist. I am arguing that the material world and the societies we have built in it affect what we percieve as human nature.