#social difference

I think it could be. It’s common for autistic to get over attached to objects and the opposite of that would be to just not get attached at all. It’s also kind of a social thing, or at least that’s kind of how I view it. I get gifts from people and have no problem just getting rid of them if I didn’t find them useful or didn’t particularly like them, and then the people who gave me them tend to get offended. It a social thing and I don’t get it.

I see it every semester as a teacher: rules don't help cultivate a positive learning environment. Grades don't help. The best classrooms may have rubrics, scaffolding, needs assessment, and modeling from teachers and individual and group participation from students, but those classes don't focus on rules and grades. The best classrooms in which I've been a member have always thrived through association independent of institutional status because the best classes are constructed with high-interest course materials and cooperating individual members; they are focused on specific objectives that benefit all involved.

I find that rules become easily confused with class objectives. I weekly reinforce practical objectives in classes to remind myself and students that we're skills-building rather than cultivating power and status. This habit is an important part of my pedagogy.

I find the same trend in other communities in which I cooperate. The more rule-burdened they are, the less interested and useful they become for all members. Rules insist on less social difference in problematic ways. Rules presuppose problematic similarity among community members. Rule-burdened associations compose a pre-determined set of states of being and assumptions about status in which individuals illustrate social difference. Social difference is illustrated according to evaluations and performances that don't relate to who we are outside the spaces rules dominate.