Tell them the truth!… well, the truth is so relative… says Jaime. He keeps repeating a part of the dialogue between Simba and Scar from the Lion King movie.
For people with ASD, relative things, double meanings and irony don't usually work. They take things literally, and having certainties is part of their peace of mind, and actually, part of ours too.
Relativizing may be good as an intellectual diversion, or as a brake on our impatience that can lead us to prejudice and intolerance, but it is not good when it serves to justify everything.
Although it may seem more difficult now, it has always been difficult to distinguish between truth and lies, between good and bad, but with the amount of information that reaches us now, the feeling that anything goes is greater, that deep down everything doesn't matter since there will always be something to justify it.
Okay… okay!… says Jaime, ending the dialogue. Scar admits that he lied, that beyond those subjective truths that depend on our experiences or our beliefs, there are objective truths, which are like that, regardless of whether we like them or not.
Javier Martinez Erdozain
May 9, 2022