A contrastive example – what I experience vs what NT people experience.

Imagine a bar full of people talking. It is very loud and people are all around. You can barely hear your friends.

Now the observer closes their eyes. The room is replaced with a new empty room but with high fidelity spatial audio (many speakers).

An NT observer can detect that they are in an empty room with speakers playing. They experience automatic fusion of audio, thermal, olfactory, and haptic data and would pick up the absence of the field. There are no other people present. It is fake.

An autistic person who has a “noisy receiver” and manual theory-theory TOM would experience some kind of uncanny valley where the audio signals indicate people but the other non-audio signals indicate emptiness. Per the LLM, this might be a horror situation for them.

I would experience no difference – I probably couldn’t tell anything changed. Even if the audio was replaced with a more generic crowd cacophony it would still sound like a bar full of people to me. I don’t sense people.