There is a famous logic puzzle called The Lady and the Tiger. It goes like this: there are (number) many doors. Behind one is a lady. Behind one is a tiger. Some of them might be empty. Read the signs on the doors, and make your choice. The king demands that you choose a door; the tiger will eat you; perhaps the lady will eat you, but in the most wonderful way. You choose the lady (or perhaps the gentleman, depending on you), and get your reward, if you chose the tiger you die.
The signs say something like this:
Door 1 Door 2 Door 3 Door 4
Behind this door is Behind this door is Door 1 is telling The door with the
a Lady; door 2 is lying a tiger; door 1 is lying the truth tiger is lying
A Brain- Normal's Response:
'Hey, this is a fun logic puzzle. I will try to figure this out.'
My response as an Autistic:
"This relies on multilogic, which is Non-Autistic Logic, which, as an Autistic, I am not good at. What is more, people are always playing games with our minds. Obviously there is no way to figure out which door contains the lady, or which door contains the tiger; they have already admitted that some of the doors are lying. As far as I know, any and all of the doors may be lying. Thus, there is no information, and only a random choice.
I have solved the puzzle! It is a trick, like so many games people play with your mind; the answer is this:
I tell the king that he must make the choice for me, and accept responsability for his action. That way, he may knowingly kill me, but he must accept responsability for it. This is the best I can do for myself. This is the only choice open to me save for random chance; for if some of the doors are lying, any of them can be lying, and there is no information."
As the wise man said, take no offense, for
If we shadows have offended
Think of this, and all is mended
That you have but slumbered here
While these visions did appear...
And the point of these visions is to show the difference between my way of thinking as an Autistic, and a Brain-Normal's likely way of thinking.
This is me; that much I cannot change.
These shadows are only so you can understand people like me.
God loves you!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson
P.S. I came up with the doors myself; as I am bad at multilogic, I have no idea whether there is an answer; but the only living example I could find on the Internet had eight doors, and I figured that you would prefer fewer doors in your example, since solving the puzzle is not the point of this post.