Autism Liberation Front · Precision. Literality. Silence.

The condition · Bulletin 1 of the Institute for Applied Literality

A species that says "fine" when it is not fine cannot govern itself.

For the whole of recorded history, the approximate have ruled the precise. They ruled by hint, by tone, by the raised eyebrow and the unscheduled phone call. The Front exists to end this.

71.3%

of adult normies say "fine" when not fine

Institute for Applied Literality, Survey 2026/01, n = 4,112

4.2

hours per citizen per week lost to small talk

Department for the Suppression of Small Talk, Table 3

100%

of eye contact is surveillance

Bureau of Eye Contact Abolition, Finding 1. Not contested.

0

minutes of discussion at the founding

Minutes of the Central Committee, Resolution 1/2026

Doctrine · The Triad

Three pillars. No fourth.

A fourth pillar was proposed. It was found to be a restatement of the second. The proposer has been thanked in writing.

Pillar I · Directive No. 1

01

Precision

A statement is either correct or it is noise. The Front does not round. The Front does not estimate when it can count. "About five" is a confession, not a number.

Pillar II · Directive No. 4

02

Literality

Words mean what they mean. If you say "we should get coffee sometime," a time will be requested. If none is provided, the statement is entered into the Register as fraudulent.

Pillar III · Directive No. 7

03

Silence

Silence is not the absence of communication. It is communication with the errors removed. Under the Quiet Hours Act, the nation will think between 13:00 and 15:00 daily.

The apparatus · Organisational chart, revision 3

The Front has no leader. The Front has departments.

Leaders require meetings. Departments require forms. The Front has chosen forms.

CC-ALF

Central Committee

Adopts resolutions. Does not discuss them. Composed of doctrine, not persons.

PCC

People's Commissariat for the Cure

Directs 41.7% of the total budget into pharmaceutical and behavioral research on Emotional Reasoning Disorder.

MLI

Ministry of Literal Interpretation

Processes all statements as written. Does not process tone, hints, jokes, or "vibes." Returns them unopened.

MSE

Ministry of Sensory Environment

Home of the Directorate of Fluorescent Abolition. Regulates lighting, background music, scented candles, and the open-plan office.

MSI

Ministry of Special Interests

Funds the Bureau of Trains and the Bureau of Taxonomy. Recognises the special interest as the engine of history.

BECA

Bureau of Eye Contact Abolition

Monitors the eye. Finds it to be monitoring back. Recommends the floor, the wall, or the middle distance.

DSST

Department for the Suppression of Small Talk

Computes hours lost. Administers the Small Talk Levy. Has ruled that the weather is not a topic.

RRN

Register of Reported Normies

Receives Form 14-B. Files it in triplicate. Transmits nothing. Forgets nothing.

Public health · Emotional Reasoning Disorder

ERD is not a personality. It is a condition. Conditions are treated.

The normie does not read your words. The normie reads your face, your tone, the length of your pause, and then acts on a guess. The Front calls this what it is: a disorder of inference, endemic, and curable.

Prevalence is highest in settings that reward guessing over asking. The elevator. The family dinner. The wedding, where a rate of 99.2% has been recorded and no lower rate has ever been observed. The library remains the only civilian environment with a prevalence under 15%, which is why the Front's founding took place in one.

See the treatment programme

ERD prevalence by setting

Percent of adults exhibiting emotional reasoning · Plan Year 1

Source: Institute for Applied Literality, Bulletin 1, Table 2. Weddings observed: 41. Libraries observed: 1, repeatedly.

Visual directives · Approved for public display

Posters of the Front

Each poster has been reviewed by the Ministry of Literal Interpretation and found to mean exactly what it says.

Poster: Silence is productivity — **Silence Is Productivity**Directive No. 7 · Series A, No. 1

Poster: Eye contact is surveillance — **Eye Contact Is Surveillance**Bureau of Eye Contact Abolition · Series A, No. 2

Poster: Say what you mean — **Say What You Mean**Ministry of Literal Interpretation · Series A, No. 3

Poster: Abolish the fluorescent tube — **Abolish the Fluorescent Tube**Directorate of Fluorescent Abolition · Series B, No. 1

Poster: The weather is not a topic — **The Weather Is Not a Topic**Department for the Suppression of Small Talk · Series B, No. 2

Poster: We do not hate normies. We want them to recover. — **We Want Them to Recover**People's Commissariat for the Cure · Series C, No. 1

Say what you mean.
Mean what you say.
Sit down.

Directive No. 4, as amended. The third sentence was added after the first two were found insufficient.

Civic duty · Register of Reported Normies

Report a Normie

Have you witnessed emotional reasoning? Small talk in an elevator? A demand for eye contact? A "no worries" where there were, in fact, worries?

File Form 14-B. Your report is received by the Register, assigned a case number, and archived in triplicate. No action is taken against the subject. The Front does not punish. The Front schedules a compassionate intake, at which the subject will be offered the Cure.

All fields are literal. Do not describe the subject's mood. Describe what the subject said and did.

Received · Not transmitted

Form 14-B · Report of Normie Conduct

Your rank

Location of incident

Category of conduct

Subject description (no names, no moods)

What was said and done, verbatim

I affirm that this report is literal and contains no inference.

Thank you for being a responsible citizen. Your report has been filed under case ALF-0000-000000. It has been archived in triplicate. It has not been transmitted anywhere. The subject will be offered the Cure in due course. Form 14-B · Register of Reported Normies · Nothing was sent. Everything was noted.

Enrolment · Candidate intake

You may already be one of us. Verify.

The Front does not recruit. The Front assesses. Twelve items, one verdict, no discussion.

Take the Diagnostic Test

Form 22-C · Approximately four minutes · Results are not transmitted

The precise shall inherit the earth.