On: Living with Williams Syndrome, the 'opposite of autism' (2014)

[orthoxerox]

> The opposite of autism is schizophrenia, where abstract thinking fails completely, and the person is unable to find correct answers to everyday problems.

I've heard this one before, but expressed in causal fallacy terms.

Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it's often right to assume a causal relationship even though you are unaware of the underlying mechanism.

If your criteria for assuming causality are too lax, you are schizophrenic (seeing relationships that aren't there), if they are too strict, you are autistic (missing the obvious).

[accidentallfact → orthoxerox]

This is correct, except the last paragraph.

Indeed, corellation equals causation for the schizophrenic.

Which is why you often don't get neurotypical people - when they say A, they often mean to imply B, because they correlate.

You are not too strict when you're autistic, you simply hallucinate less.