Q&A 7, First Answer

My question is: While social status may not give one access to a special way of knowing the world, is there any status (perhaps as an autistic person or a person with synaesthesia) which can?

To some extent, I believe that statuses which affect a person's perception (whether by changing their physical ability to receive information from the world or by changing their ability to process that information) can give them a unique way of knowing the world.  However, I do not think that this necessarily gives them any sort of privilege.  Furthermore, it is not only people with such statuses who know the world differently - everyone perceives the world in a slightly different way.  The way someone sees a single object can vary according to millions of factors: their height, the ration of rods to cones in their eyes, whether their hair is in their face at the time, and so on.  I think that the important point here is that, while everyone knows the world in a different way (and some people's ways may be more unusual than those of others), none of those ways are necessarily privileged or special.