And I’d imagine that this applies to politics as well. Given the popularity of /c/autism, there seems to be a correlation between autistic people and political beliefs on Lemmy that seem resistant to propagandized beliefs, though it may that other propaganda just hadn’t kicked off here in earnest yet.
I’d love to get your subjective opinions on this with caveat that correlation does not imply causation.
Also hope this isn’t sensitive. Figure this would help me the autistic community
Full disclosure: This post popped up in my “all” feed. I’m also not autistic.
Not just a meme - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-fallible-mind/201708/why-advertising-falls-flat-in-individuals-autism
Short version: so much of advertising relies on emotional manipulation using subtle cues. So individuals who don’t respond to subtle emotional cues in advertising aren’t manipulated by them.
And messages like these (yOu ArE nAtUrAlLy iMmUnE) are very harmful and wrong. To quote one recent article:
The article then continues to list examples of persuasion techniques that work on spectrum individuals. With examples of nostalgia and hypnotics. I’m not an expert in marketing, but given the random bells, jingles, dog barks, baby/cat cries in marketing from the last 25 years, I bet these logic-thought terminating triggers have been baked into advertising for a long time.
Which is all typical of articles that treat autistic people as a monolithic group