Aspergers racism

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Admittedly, it was nonsensical to mention this, because everyone who begins to realize the collective subjectivity of their group will ultimately face negative consequences for having a deviant non-conforming possibly socially unacceptable viewpoint, if expressed, and if not feel constantly misunderstood. In any case, you will only experience disadvantages.
I can neither argue against collective ignorance nor politically heated subjects, especially if it basically requires you to go into amounts of discussion that no one is willing to keep up with.

I hope though, that some people will see or already saw the greater pattern to it, and seek to eliminate cognitive and social bias, disregarding all personal benefit, for the sake of gaining greater clarity and understanding.

In my world, the outcome doesn't justify the means and what's most true is that which is most rational and coherent, and not what is agreed upon by some majority or social consent.

On the contrary, most aspies are free from racism and sexism- and homophobia too for that matter

I do not see myself as a different ethnicity, autism is a mental/neurological disorder not an ethnicity. Also not sure that is even an example of racism would an inability to process faces and facial expressions of a different race nessisarily indicate feelings of superiority toward that race? Or a clash of different cultures with different social norms?

I feel like someone with a brain that works differently than the typical person, but thats not an ethnicity.

The cross-race effect develops over time because of exposure to people of a particular race.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2566514/

"Early experience with faces of a given racial type facilitates visual recognition for this type of face relative to others."

http://www.pallier.org/papers/Sangrigol ... ldraft.pdf

We don't develop a typical ability to recognize even those faces we're exposed to. So yeah, you could say "a form of racism" but that would be a misleading way of putting it.

Interesting thought... not sure if the OP really applies to me but I definitely don't think of myself as any of the cultures in my background. I just think of myself as me.

Is this saying that aspies are racist? I am not racist at all. I'm mixed race (75% white, 25% Mexican) and most of my friends are of other cultures and races. I think racism is ridiculous, and it has nothing to do with Asperger's.

I have a feeling people don't understand the OP.

It is true, but misleading. A clearer way of putting it would be "people learn to read the sort of faces they see around them (usually their own race) but aspies do not, so it's as though aspies have no race". At least, I think that's what the OP is trying to say. When you use a word like "racism", people stop listening and respond to their own projections.

I wonder how easy people of one race who have always been exposed to people of other races on a daily basis compare to those of one race who don't often see people of other races.

If I had to hazard a guess, it would be that people of one race are often less successful at identifying people of another race than their own is because if they aren't exposed to individuals of the other race very much they probably haven't trained their brain to pick out identifying characteristics very well for people of the other race.

If so, that is enormously different than prosopagnosia which is the result of a developmental problem with or damage to the part of the brain that identifies people, thought with reason to be the area known as the right fusiform gyrus.

To base an argument of racism on such a gross misunderstanding is beyond ridiculous.

Here's a hint regarding race -- you are the same race as your parents or the same mix of races you get from your parents. There is no Autistic Race.