I haven’t been on here much the past week so apologies if this has been posted before:
See, we do have effective social communication! It’s just different from that of non-autistic people. This is why it works so well when we are friends with other autistic people!
Don’t get me wrong, I have non-autistic friends and they are lovely people. But this article helps to explain something that I’ve been noticing for some months. That when autistic people are together in a friendship group, they actually appear ‘normal’, because when you’re spending time with and talking with people who’s brains work the same way as yours, it is normal! I get such an enormous sense of validation from speaking with my autistic friends, I finally have social mirrors, it’s not ‘just’ me!