Social cognition
Some people gain access to the ‘AS person's world’ for specific reasons: they then become perceptible to the system, their facial expressions and other markers being identified, synthesised and recorded.
Others, however, do not: there is neither room, urgency nor reason to integrate them. This is not a disability strictly speaking, but a selection of information deemed a priority. It is also a matter of intimacy: the data an individual transmits can be so intense and personal that there is neither space nor resources to decode it.
How much information can one person convey to the AS person? And how much can an entire group sustain?
An excess of information becomes a disability: it is not a sign of cognitive dysfunction, but of a protective mechanism.
The soul and the self (the spirit) express themselves through the person and their ‘vehicle’: a body of animal origin endowed with its own autonomy. The so-called ‘AS’ interface, for its part, is designed and operated differently, but from the viewpoint of the soul or spirit, the expression remains the same. When an interface functions in an impaired or simply different way, this does not imply the absence of soul or spirit. This question concerns autistic and allistic people alike, and the way this interface is viewed varies according to the model of the autism spectrum.