I’ve got to admit, I look at most of these and say “you’re treating the social discomfort as something immutable to be routed around, rather than something to be fixed by establishing different norms”. Forgive me, but it strikes me (especially in this kind of community with high aspie proportion) that it’s probably easier to tutor the… insufficiently-assertive… in how to stand up for themselves in Ask Culture than it is to tutor the aspies in how to not set everything on fire in Guess Culture.
Por que no los dos? It’s a minority of people who have the ability and inclination to learn how to conform to a different mileu than thier natural state.
I’ve got to admit, I look at most of these and say “you’re treating the social discomfort as something immutable to be routed around, rather than something to be fixed by establishing different norms”. Forgive me, but it strikes me (especially in this kind of community with high aspie proportion) that it’s probably easier to tutor the… insufficiently-assertive… in how to stand up for themselves in Ask Culture than it is to tutor the aspies in how to not set everything on fire in Guess Culture.
Por que no los dos? It’s a minority of people who have the ability and inclination to learn how to conform to a different mileu than thier natural state.