From TFA: "For now we’re going to assume that people like this are not sick even though a subset of the traits may sound superficially like some cases of autism or even schizophrenia." Who the hell is this guy? What kind of call is that? He has no background in this subject matter but his writing as if he's authoritative. Stop linking to him!
The post explores a perspective for the express purpose of generating and connecting ideas and experiences. Other established interpretations are possible, but we will temporily set them aside so that we can hash out what is (potentially) a new idea.
Why is that so hard for some people to get? It's like you're unable to grasp how mathematics and science is done. You take a premise or form a hypothesis... then you see what you can build on it. 9 times out of 10 it doesn't go anywhere... but the time for rigor is later, not at the beginning.
It's as if the phrase "for the sake of discussion" is completely beyond your mental capacity or something....
