and then being told that it’s a skill issue and I should just learn the rules.
This part is not aimed at leogao’s post!
What I was (not very skillfully) trying to point at is people who think that autistic people are just worse at social skills. I’m so fead up with this claim, and is a contributing reason to me avoiding the neurotypicals. But it’s not a claim that I read leogao’s as having made.
leogau’s language comparison is actually pretty great for this. You would not call someone who have a difrent native langue “bad at languages”, but nerutypicals are often mistakenly beleveing that autists are “bad at social skills”.
I also want to add that lots of atuists learn how to interact with the neurotypicals. It’s called masking, and involves learning more than just their wierd customs. It also involves hiding ones natural reactions. I hear it’s common for autistic women to get so good at this that they don’t get diagnosed untill later in life, when the burden of constant masking causes depression or something. This did not happen to me, because I am terrible at masking.
This part is not aimed at leogao’s post!
What I was (not very skillfully) trying to point at is people who think that autistic people are just worse at social skills. I’m so fead up with this claim, and is a contributing reason to me avoiding the neurotypicals. But it’s not a claim that I read leogao’s as having made.
leogau’s language comparison is actually pretty great for this. You would not call someone who have a difrent native langue “bad at languages”, but nerutypicals are often mistakenly beleveing that autists are “bad at social skills”.
I also want to add that lots of atuists learn how to interact with the neurotypicals. It’s called masking, and involves learning more than just their wierd customs. It also involves hiding ones natural reactions. I hear it’s common for autistic women to get so good at this that they don’t get diagnosed untill later in life, when the burden of constant masking causes depression or something. This did not happen to me, because I am terrible at masking.