Indeed. As a young person, I was deep on the autism spectrum. In grade 2, the school I was attending recommended that I be moved to grade 8. My parents refused, believing that I would not receive the socialization necessary to be a functioning member of society, or some such. Instead, I received almost constant bullying from my classmates, often in plain view of my ‘teachers’, until some time around late grade 9, at which point I was so very much the outcast that I believe it wasn’t enjoyable for them to abuse me any longer.
That series of unfortunate parts of my life augmented my mind to the point that outside stimuli, including interactions with other sentients, were simply interpreted as an elaborate puzzle (with most of the pieces missing from the box).
Consequently, I formed the impression that all sentients would incorporate each new learning into their understanding of the universe, augmenting that understanding to fit the learnings, the scientific method. By my 2nd year at uni, I realized that was not how other sentient minds worked. And, it has saddened and disturbed me from that moment on.
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