This is something I have intuitively written about without much looking into.. Even I’ve only skimmed this article, but @
mr provocateur had shared with me, this:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10....62361317708287..
This two-way theory of mind block will inevitably have making others a harder time in someone seeing a person who is autism-afflicted, their type.
I had just last night watched (and it’s funny, because I’d planned to write this before that happened, and I’m glad I didn’t, having more say).. Accuse me of bragging… Trying type me a 4w3 rather than 5… When I wasn’t even bragging by posting an award I won for poetry.. It was to show why Ni+ really isn’t an absurdity for myself…
Being oblivious to how one can interpret one (which isn’t very Fe base, because it is aware of outside perspectives), an autistic person wouldn’t necessarily view how this could interpret as bragging, unless they learn manually that’s how it will receive…
Something as this can make a person mistype a person beta rational or higher 3 influence… If they aren’t even seeing the person doesn’t even care about climbing a social ladder…
And this is one instance.. There are likely vast pitfalls, one can sink into without realizing, in their trying look at a person with autism in their type…
It is almost even weird for an autistic person to have strong 2 or 3. 4 works well, because 4 only concerns with an image based within and wanting others acknowledge and see that, getting reactive when this doesn’t happen.. But 2 and 3 concern with making an image based upon social roles and nuances.. The 2 knowing how one can be seen as lovable, the 3 about hierarchies, what makes them look good, etc…
2 and 3 are the most polished enneagram types… EIE is the most polished model G and A type.. It is very peculiar for a person with autism to be one of these types.. An autistic person wouldn’t develop the enneagrammatic defense of a 2 or 3 as likely, because there is an inherent theory of mind block concerning an image focus in an outward way, leaving 4 the only image type that works well with it.. 4w5 is the most solipsistic of any image type, and is the only in theory, working image type for autism with the inability to well perspective take it accompanies.
I can maybe see 2w1(1w9) subwing also working for autism.. In an introvert, and who maybe has reactive influences that cause them turmoil when their image is unseen… Because it isn’t as polished and is more a super ego type that wants be seen as good and lovable, but may not be as good at getting others see it. But it is more limited in how it would manifest well….