• Replies 25 replies
  • Subscribers 82 subscribers
  • Views 5206 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

Failing to understand others

NAS39246

I have heard it said now that one of the major symptoms of Autism is failing to relate to, or understand others during communication.

Could anyone please be clearer and explain what exactly it is that they do not understand about others? And what they feel causes this inability to understand others?

Or, do you yourself feel that you do infact understand others, but the problem that causes you to act differently to how is generally accepted is something else, and that failure to understand others is infact attributed unfairlry towards you by misguided but well meaning professionals?

Parents

  • Autism is a broad condition and I think can be quite difficult to grasp a sense of what it is as the expression of ASC can appear very different in one person from the next. 

    You may be interested in checking this introductory Future Learn module out at some point (though it may raise more questions than it answers): 

    https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/autism

    You may also be interested in Googling Sara Hendrix,  Carley Fleischmann and Ros Blackburn (I may have slightly mispelled some of these names). These 3 women have all been diagnosed with Autism and have quite different 'spikey' profiles. 

Reply

  • Autism is a broad condition and I think can be quite difficult to grasp a sense of what it is as the expression of ASC can appear very different in one person from the next. 

    You may be interested in checking this introductory Future Learn module out at some point (though it may raise more questions than it answers): 

    https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/autism

    You may also be interested in Googling Sara Hendrix,  Carley Fleischmann and Ros Blackburn (I may have slightly mispelled some of these names). These 3 women have all been diagnosed with Autism and have quite different 'spikey' profiles. 

Children
No Data