I used to think autism-to-autism communication was a thing; that is, autistic people get along best with other autistic people. I now think this model is partly true but also deeply flawed: in particular, there are many different types of autistic person, and not only do all types not get along with all types, it’s not necessarily even true that people of the same type get along with each other (this is probably correlated with degree of self-love/acceptance or something). if anything, it’s probably often even quite disconcerting and cognitive dissonance inducing to see one’s own reflection. and in general the people who are best at getting along with a wide range of autistic people are probably quite a lot more emotionally and socially intelligent than most autistic people.
I used to think autism-to-autism communication was a thing; that is, autistic people get along best with other autistic people. I now think this model is partly true but also deeply flawed: in particular, there are many different types of autistic person, and not only do all types not get along with all types, it’s not necessarily even true that people of the same type get along with each other (this is probably correlated with degree of self-love/acceptance or something). if anything, it’s probably often even quite disconcerting and cognitive dissonance inducing to see one’s own reflection. and in general the people who are best at getting along with a wide range of autistic people are probably quite a lot more emotionally and socially intelligent than most autistic people.