Another way to phrase this from an Autistic PoV to an authority figure:
You are no better than I.
Does a person really have to be "better" than you to act as some sort of authority
in a particular context?How about the gate agent at the airport, who boards and deboards people from the plane?
I don't necessarily love listening to that person, but I accept that we probably need somebody doing that job so that we can hopefully get the plane boarded and deboarded in some sort of nonchaotic way.
The thought of whether or not this person is "better" than me seems rather bizarre. They probably know how to board a plane better than me, and even if they don't, it's generally still going to be better than 200 arriving and departing passengers devolving into a free-for-all because they have 200 competing opinions of how things should work.
Generally, most sorts of "authority" I experience on a daily basis fall into this sort of mental bin for me.
Obviously that's a rather trivial example.
What's the logical endpoint of "nobody is better than me" or "nobody is better than anybody?" Just like, no rules whatsoever for anybody, unless you explicitly opt-in to some specific rule or authority figure you happen to like?
And how does this even relate to autism and/or one's (lack of) empathy?
How about the gate agent at the airport, who boards and deboards people from the plane?
I don't necessarily love listening to that person, but I accept that we probably need somebody doing that job so that we can hopefully get the plane boarded and deboarded in some sort of nonchaotic way.
The thought of whether or not this person is "better" than me seems rather bizarre. They probably know how to board a plane better than me, and even if they don't, it's generally still going to be better than 200 arriving and departing passengers devolving into a free-for-all because they have 200 competing opinions of how things should work.
Generally, most sorts of "authority" I experience on a daily basis fall into this sort of mental bin for me.
Obviously that's a rather trivial example.
What's the logical endpoint of "nobody is better than me" or "nobody is better than anybody?" Just like, no rules whatsoever for anybody, unless you explicitly opt-in to some specific rule or authority figure you happen to like?
And how does this even relate to autism and/or one's (lack of) empathy?