Anti-Alias

Whether you flatten the world into binaries, or allow for nuance, complexity, and blurry edges.

Janet McNamara and the Autism Diagnosis

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Anti-Alias controls whether you flatten the world into simple binaries or allow for nuance. Janet McNamara had been reading social situations in binary: either she was neurotypical and just badly behaved, or something was wrong with her. The diagnosis opened up a third option — her brain was wired differently, and that wasn't good or bad, it was just different. The seat moment in her class showed Anti-Alias recalibrated: instead of 'that person is an asshole' or 'I am an asshole for caring,' she held a more nuanced read of the situation.