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The original was posted on /r/aspergers by /u/egregori3 on 2023-10-05 13:09:30.

The paper, “Autistic traits associated with dichotomic thinking mediated by intolerance of uncertainty”, was authored by Noi Suzuki and Masahiro Hirai.

"Summarizing their findings, the researchers stated, “The pilot and main studies indicate that higher autistic traits were associated with higher intolerance of uncertainty in a non-clinical population of university students and general adults. This is consistent with a study that found that autistic children reported higher intolerance of uncertainty than those without autism spectrum disorder. In addition, we demonstrated that autistic traits in non-clinical populations are positively correlated with intolerance of uncertainty.”

I think this article is interesting. I have been told many times that I am too black and white; I have noticed others tend to be either black and white or shades of gray depending on which helps their argument.

If you look at a checkerboard from a distance it appears gray, but zooming in you can see gray is an illusion and reality is black and white when looked at with enough detail.

Is it possible that we see black and white where others see gray because we pay so much attention to details?

Or maybe others see nuance where we cannot?

For me it has more to do with ruminations. I do not magically see detail others do not. I just cannot stop thinking about it. I see the black and white details of a problem because cannot stop thinking about it.