@actuallyautistic Another handy term from #SoftwareEngineering that can be borrowed to describe the #autistic experience is the notion of a "leaky abstraction". In lay terms, this is when you try to put something in simple terms, but every attempt to do so forces you to say things in a way that isn't quite correct. To be 100% correct, you have to go into detail, and there's just no way around it, because the #language you speak doesn't have the particular words that you need.

If you have an #ImpedanceMismatch between your thoughts and the language you speak, then the language is going to be full of #LeakyAbstractions for you, and you are going to be stuck being way more #verbose than folks that use the language as intended if you want to express your thoughts to the same level of accuracy or precision as them. I can't claim to speak for other #autistic folks, but this is a big part of why I'm overly verbose sometimes.

Decentralization seems to be omnipotent nowadays.

#fallacy #warning #decentralization #LeakyAbstractions

#LeakyAbstractions