One Thing People Keep Getting Wrong About Autistic People
This belief comes from the old idea that autistic people have trouble communicating and behaving in a way that’s expected of society.Society is programmed in a way that all people in it are expected that they can behave in the same way. That’s weird for a world where everybody tells you to “be yourself”.Because that’s not possible if you don’t let us.I remember an episode of Louis Theroux where he visits some autistic people. In that episode, there are a lot of “stereotype-confirming” people who in fact aren’t capable of living alone or being independent.That’s the picture that people have of autistic people. Here’s why that’s not always true.Autism is a spectrum, a very broad one and therefore you can’t generalize all autistic people.I can be a very social person if I’m around the right people. That’s a crucial parameter in my social life. It’s like radar, if my radar detects something off, I block you from my heart and there’s no way to get in.Some people just give off the wrong vibes.Another thing that really doesn’t help is constantly mentioning autism. Phrases like “I couldn’t tell you were autistic”, or “Isn’t everybody a little autistic” are just killing.
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