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4:17pm
July 21, 2015
Okay I’m calling bullshit on this yawn contagion stuff.
I keep hearing that autistic people don’t show yawn contagion. I don’t know who decided that because lots of autistic people on every purported part of the spectrum do have it.
Secondly the idea that yawn contagion is just about empathy or synchronization socially. No. Reading about yawning makes me yawn just as much as seeing someone yawn. It’s not because I imagine someone yawning when I read about it either. It’s because anything that reminds me of yawning makes me yawn. That includes other people yawning but it also includes anything that reminds me of the topic of yawning. Anything at all.
Honestly so much of what passes for science in psychology is flagrant bullshit. And nobody notices.
*yawn*
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maeblythe reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:god damn itI didn’t yawn, but I just likeI COULD FEEL IT COMING EVERY TIME THEY WROTE YAWN
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natalunasans said: i frikin yawned like 3 times reading this post and no i wasn’t bored haha i was actually kinda irritated that ppl would say this.- natalunasans said: wtf. husband and i have yawn contagion and we’re both autistic af
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