The Origins of This Philosophy

The Jewish people have thing thing where they say their Jewish, which is fine, because they're biologically Jewish. There is also an ingrained religious aspect.

However, a Jewish person could be an atheist, and still say he is Jewish, such as he is willing to defend the ideas and values of Judaism and Jewish people.

But, there are other rules such as a person is a Jew if their mother is a Jew. So they don't have to be 100% ethnically Jewish.

And of course, anyone that isn't biologically Jewish, in all denominations, can still be converted to Jewish, usually such as when they marry into a Jew.

I've decided to do the same thing for autism, but rather than the religion of autism, the philosophy of autism. Therefore, non-autistic people can say they're autistic if they're willing to adhere to the philosophies of autism (this word may eventually be capitalized in future years).

Just as a non-Jewish Judaist can say "I'm Jewish" without being biologically Jewish, a non-autistic person can say "I'm autistic" without being neurochemically autistic.

The influence from Ayn Rand and Objectivism:

Ayn Rand called her philosophy Objectivism, and there were reasons why she chose that word.

But before that, objectivism had a different meaning. By calling her philosophy that, objectivism now has multiple meanings, where 1 definition is the philosophy of Ayn Rand, and the other definition being the older, former definition.

This philosophy, will have the same follow. It will be using a word that already meant something else.

In any event, we can certainly ponder why I chose this word, but I am actually autistic, and I decided to name this philosophy after the particular word autism.

But because of doing so, there are certainly many other things I'd like to add to the philosophy of autism, such as the philosophy of burden of proof and atheism, but I obviously can't, since not all autistic people are atheists. As well as lots of things that have nothing to do with autism.

In this case, the philosophy of autism is not a philosophy that covers everything. So it can be compatible with other philosophies. While half of Objectivism or a chunk could be considered like a philosophy of economics, the philosophy of autism is more of a social philosophy, so it is independent of whether someone is an atheist or not.

Obviously, if I tried to incorporate metaphysics and objective reality, we'd be in competition with other philosophies, but there is no need for that.

Otherwise, if you want to incorporate all the other blogs and articles I wrote, you can basically call it the philosophy of NealIRC.org, but no need. ;)

Now..., people can chose to say "I'm an autistic" without actually being neurochemically autistic.

By the way, I also excluded out a major thing. The causation of eye contact. Yes, autistic people tend to avoid contact, but I'm not going to add that to this philosophy. Eye contact is apparently pre-determined, genetic, etc. I find it utterly absurd and silly to require people to decide to cease eye contact just to adhere to this philosophy.