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From my experience, it seems psych textbooks never acknowledge the possibility reader might be autistic or whatnot. Are books about gender or race studies written the same way?

Somebody should write "The Aspie's Guide to NT Personality and Psychology". I'd buy it.

Where's Callista theses days, I'm sure she has the intellect to write such a tome.

I don't understand what you mean. Why would a textbook need to acknowledge the possibility of people having disorders?

Because people with disorders might read their textbooks.

But what does having a disorder have to do with being able to read a textbook? And how would a textbook author go about acknowledging that the reader may have a disorder (not just autism, but all of the disorders, since it would only be fair)?

It's the way it's written, it just comes off as rubbing you wrong if you are being described. It's not that it prevents you from reading it, it's about tact, being respected. I want to know if this is a legitimate problem, or if I'm just taking it the wrong way and all textbooks are like that for all groups of people.

Could you give me an example? I'm trying to understand what you mean.

Do you mean psychology textbooks that describe autism? If so, I'd probably agree with you that some authors aren't well versed enough on the subject to actually be writing on it. I noticed that with my intro to psychology textbook, but that's true for a lot of disorders, not just autism, so I suppose it depends on the textbook in question and what kind of textbook it is. I wouldn't expect someone who's a specialist in neurodevelopmental disorders to be writing an intro psych textbook, for example, so I expect those who author them to only know the basics about these types of disorders. (Now an author of a developmental psych textbook might be a bit more knowledgeable, but there's no guarantee, I suppose.) But I saw you also brought up gender and race studies textbooks, so I was wondering how (or even why) the disorders would be described in those types of textbooks. I've never heard of that before (unless it's specifically about autism, of course).

Might just be an Intro to Psych thing.

Not disorders in race and gender books, I mean like women and black people.

Yeah, probably.

I think textbooks are written to appeal to / be understood by the MAJORITY (NTs). If one wants a book that caters to their specific "whatever", then they have to get that type of book----but, I think a textbook is meant to be "broad".