>>3100708I know that you're using "autistic" in the internet vernacular kind of way (similarly to how "retarded" is used as an adjective to describe something the speaker considers foolish, idiotic, inane, etc.), but actual autistic people in general have a very high affinity for aesthetic judgments and other tasks that involve large amounts of subjective perceptual processing. This is because the cognition of autistic people tends less towards conceptual abstractions from immediate sensory input (i.e. the normal way non-autistic people think) than it does towards an immediate, affective synthesis of environmental stimuli. In short, autists are actually really, really sensitive to their environment, and accordingly have very complex and refined tastes.
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