Generalisation

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Have you ever been told by a professional (so called ASD expert) that you have problems with generalisation?
Why would we have difficulties with it and NT not?
Do we over-generalise or under-generalise?
Professionals are often very non-specific.
Why do even have to see how we are as problems?

how frustrating!! !!

frankly speaking, depending on the context, autistic people can both over-generalize and under generalize

for example, when talking from black and white morality standpoint, they can be too judgemental, not taking others pov into consideration example "all rich people are greedy". or they can undergeneralize, when they look at the world from pov of their niche expertise or when they focus on a detail too much without seeing the big picture.

Have you ever been told by a professional (so called ASD expert) that you have problems with generalisation?

First I would wonder why someone would express a declarative opinion about me. While many people feel free to comment on others today most have learned to keep their opinions to themselves or risk a punch in the mouth. I have to assume that this "expert" is someone being paid as a therapist.

One might respond, "I am sorry I don't understand. Are you saying I am not general enough or that I am too general. Your statement might be seen to reflect a problem with generalization".

Occasionally someone who presents themselves as an "expert" can have something useful to say. This doesn't sound like one of those times.

Overgeneralization versus pattern recognition

It appears that neurotypical extroverts make overgeneralizing statements, as well as "black and white thinking" and jump to conclusions, a lot more often than my worthless corpse does.

But not everything is the way it appears

Not a representative sample

Not a controlled experiment

"Always", "never", "people", "can you". Neurotypical extroverts tend to be a lot less specific in their statements and actions, than me. And they talk a lot more and a lot more enthusiastically than me. Overgeneralizing about a group of people or about one person. (Situational versus dispositional)

"All generalisations are worthless, including this one."
- Mark Twain

Generalization is something both humans and animals naturally do. For example if a dog has a kind and caring owner, it will assume all humans are kind and caring until it meets one that is unpleasant or cruel to it. Then the dog will be confused because it doesn't understand how different and unpredictable humans are, even though they are all the same species.

Humans are supposed to be intelligent enough to know not to generalize, but do anyway because it's a sad and sorry part of our genes that may have been beneficial for our early ancestors' survival but is now turned society into a giant mess. Of course, I'm talking about things like racism, sexism or stereotyping, or being judgmental of certain people of certain occupations because you had a very bad experience in the past because of them.