Will 'you' PROVIDE ANY examples?Dontaskme wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 10:34 am Age is Autistic.
Meet Autistic People Where They Are
One of the best ways to conceptualize the communication differences between people on the spectrum and neurotypical people is that autistic people communicate differently. For this reason, just like in any other setting, it’s important to meet people where they are and get educated on how to be more accommodating to people with neurodiverse communication styles.
Autism is like speaking a different language. We don’t understand things all the time because ‘people’ isn’t our first language. Even when we understand, most of the time it’s exhausting to constantly be speaking in a different language. When our emotions are high, we revert back to our own language. It helps when people try and learn ‘autistic’ so we can sometimes speak our native language with someone.
The greatest challenge is getting the neurotypicals (NTs) to know there is a challenge in the first place. We (the autistic) know that we’re misreading NTs and missing things they want us to understand.
Also, do so-called "neurotypicals" ALSO know that 'they' are MISREADING and MISSING 'things' that "others" want 'them' to understand? Or, do 'they' NOT have this ABILITY?
For surely 'the ones' who BELIEVE that 'they' are NOT 'autistic' and ARE so-called "neurotypicals", in this forum, BELIEVE that it is NOT 'them' who MISREAD nor MISS 'things' here, as can be CLEARLY SEEN, EVIDENCED, and PROVED True in this forum.
BUT, 'you' seem to have FORGOTTEN that it IS the so-called "neurotypicals", in the days when this is being written, who ARE STILL SOMEWHAT LOST and CONFUSED as it IS 'them' who ARE STILL LOOKING FOR ANSWERS and/or SOLUTIONS.
Also, just LOOK BACK OVER their writings for the last few thousand years or more, hitherto when this is being written, and COMMUNICATING WITH "others" was NOT, EXACTLY, those human beings BEST nor STRONGEST POINT/S. After all HOW MANY WARS were STARTED and are STILL HAPPENING and OCCURRING, since the inception of just this forum up to the day that 'these words' were put to print?
SURELY, 'they' could have done WITH BETTER COMMUNICATION SKILLS? Or, are COMMUNICATION SKILLS, or LACK OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS, NOT INVOLVED IN the CREATION OF 'conflict' and 'disagreements', which LEADS UP TO 'bickering', 'fighting', 'warring', and even the KILLING OF "each other", AT ALL?
'They' ALSO have MANY, MANY CHALLENGES in UNDERSTANDING "each other", as can be CLEARLY SEEN NOT just here, in this forum, but THROUGHOUT human history, IN MANY FORMS.Dontaskme wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 10:34 am Generally speaking, they’re usually wrong. This is where things like the myth of the emotionless or unempathetic autistic come from, people who don’t realize that they don’t understand us.
The challenges go both ways. People with neurotypicalism don’t understand us either. They think they do, but they have challenges in understanding autistic communication.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 10:34 am For example, my direct, honest, clear communication will be taken as a personal attack and I will be accused of ‘being mean’ by people who claim they understand autism, yet demonstrate that they don’t by using functioning labels and person first language (both of which most autistic people hate) and by doing this very thing when we point it out to them.
Source: https://themighty.com/topic/autism-spec ... ficulties/