Adventurer's Armory--question about treating exotic weapons as X

[Warforged Gardener]

I just want to be sure I'm reading this correctly, so forgive me if I'm making the exotic proficiency question more complicated than it needs to be. When it says to treat a scorpion whip(for example) as a whip if they don't have the exotic proficiency for scorpion whip, does that mean someone proficient in whips but not scorpion whips must use normal whip statistics? Or is someone proficient in whips automatically proficient in scorpion whips?

[TLO3]

Warforged Gardener wrote:

I just want to be sure I'm reading this correctly, so forgive me if I'm making the exotic proficiency question more complicated than it needs to be. When it says to treat a scorpion whip(for example) as a whip if they don't have the exotic proficiency for scorpion whip, does that mean someone proficient in whips but not scorpion whips must use normal whip statistics? Or is someone proficient in whips automatically proficient in scorpion whips?

It means they aren't trained to get the full potential out of the scorpion whip so they only get the stats of a regular whip when using it.