People with autism less likely to succumb to bystander effect, research finds
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#2My wife recently discovered "Young Sheldon", and one of the most egregious goofs so far is the idea that Sheldon would suffer from stage fright. We both agree that stage fright is something probably only suffered by people who care about the opinions of strangers.
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#4Paper is here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aur.3012
I'll save you the read, in light of the replication crisis, this is the important bit: 33 autistic participants
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#5My wife recently discovered "Young Sheldon", and one of the most egregious goofs so far is the idea that Sheldon would suffer from stage fright. We both agree that stage fright is something probably only suffered by people who care about the opinions of strangers.
There are many reasons why stage fright might happen. One that I suspect is very common, is the desire for excellence.
Young Sheldon was probably very aware that he's not the best at communicating complex thoughts to a broad audience due to his unique, or atypical world view.
He also had a very high bar of personal excellence and would probably feel like a fool if he exposed himself and failed to meet that bar.
There is nuance in "caring about the opinions of strangers". He probably didn't care at all when he was happy about his performance - i.e. it was on them to not understand what he was saying after great thought and probably a very carefully crafted delivery. He probably did care how the others felt when he felt like failed himself by not being up to his own standards.
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#6My wife recently discovered "Young Sheldon", and one of the most egregious goofs so far is the idea that Sheldon would suffer from stage fright. We both agree that stage fright is something probably only suffered by people who care about the opinions of strangers.
I don't know what's supposed to be the young Sheldon's diagnosis, but social anxiety is more common among autistic people than neurotypical population.
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#7Anecdotal evidence: around me, several kids are on the autistic spectrum. It's hard to prevent them from intervening when they notice what they feel is an injustice, towards them or others.
At some point, this included one of them regularly attempting to rescue babies from baby trolleys, which they considered a prison. Fortunately, the would-be rescuer was only aged 3 at the time.
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#9My wife recently discovered "Young Sheldon", and one of the most egregious goofs so far is the idea that Sheldon would suffer from stage fright. We both agree that stage fright is something probably only suffered by people who care about the opinions of strangers.
ASD is a spectrum. There are likely some who do not get stage fright, but there are likely many who do.
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#10Anecdotal evidence: around me, several kids are on the autistic spectrum. It's hard to prevent them from intervening when they notice what they feel is an injustice, towards them or others. At some point, this included one of them regularly attempting to rescue babies from baby trolleys, which they considered a prison. Fortunately, the would-be rescuer was only aged 3 at the time.
Hi, I posted this study because I have Asperger’s and this is what was always said about my behavior.
Yesterday I literally had to stop myself from sending photographs to the police of a guy walking his dog off leash in a park that has signs forbidding it. And my reason for wanting to call the police is because of my compassion for the dog or for anyone the dog to hurt. Not so much that it was only that the man was doing something wrong. And I think that’s what gets missed in those of us with ASD, there is still a strong, empathy and compassion that motivates us.