Editing Socrates (section)

=== Suppression of Autistic Framing ===
Modern accounts of Socrates rarely acknowledge the neurocognitive explanation that would make his behavior legible. His behaviors—fixation, literalism, sensory indifference, rigidity, social minimalism—are rebranded as “eccentric,” “ironic,” or “provocative.” This reflects a systemic suppression of autistic interpretive frames in classical reception.

Even sympathetic writers like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche oscillated between admiration and revulsion because they encountered in Socrates something '''radically other'''—the '''non-allistic logic of an autistic adult''' uninterested in mimicry, power, or appeasement.