…sm should be treated differently, and not just because it’s a distinct way of perceiving the world. Recent research, engaging with autistic people as partners rather than simply observing them, suggests that we have badly misunderstood the interior life of autism — as I will show, these cold, naive characters are nothing more than literary tropes.The Autistic View of the World Is Not the Neurotypical Cliché2.3K10Aeon MagazineKen KnudsenFollowSep 4, 2018 · 1 min readYup. One day the normalized ego’s will awakened to what is happening at a cosmic evolutionary level.