pokémon headcanon

[kuruk22]

Just to get it all down for future reference... a work in progress (will add on as it develops).

Not definitive (I might break my headcanon to go in another direction for some fics), but this is what I believe... most of the time.

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[solarpillar]

Sorry, that was a lack of research from my part. It appears that only non-Asperger autists are not interested in humans and Aspergers are interested, just not good at it.

I thought they weren't because there was this experiment at one point that showed where normal people and autistic people tend to focus in a movie. The normal audience focused primarily on human faces. The autists tend to focus on other things and avoid the faces (things like, there is a human body here, there's a table there, there's a painting on the wall, etc. rather than this is a female person who is sad and next to her is a man who is laughing, etc.) the conclusion of the experiment (according to the person writing the paper, anyway) was that autists weren't interested on humans. Instead of seeing [humans, maybe in X context] they see [object W, object Y, object Z etc. in X]. There was a lack of focus on humans and just treat them as neutral information. I guess that was why they didn't feel the need of interacting humans, because it didn't mean more than interacting with a table or a tree. (That's on a purely social level; if you ask them which to save between a kitten and a painting they'd probably still pick kitten.) Maybe that's what makes them "see everything" because what normal people tend to ignore/rule as not important they take it in without discrimination. I cannot remember the name of the experiment, only that I saw it while doing research for a film analysis homework or something. Over 3 years ago.

The autism spectrum is rather huge, so I guess that test doesn't mean much anymore or it was more precise (limited to one type of autism) but I don't remember.