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Different not Broken

Kitsune

I haven’t been on here much the past week so apologies if this has been posted before:

https://annsautism.blogspot.com/2019/05/autistic-people-so-new-research.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR0EGamhKSl_MBHXtRCrnqLuHKZO7S8NSefVQdMXEr_beIQmyKeDtWQAD94

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!

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  • A heartening read. I have a friend who I communicate very well with. I really feel a same wavelength with. It is very balanced and I'm interested in his life. There's a possibility he's on the spectrum but he's not interesting in pursuing it. I don't pursue friendship because I can be quite about me alot and have difficulty trying to take an interest in other people's lives.

    Recently I was fantasizing that AS people are the next step in human evolution and felt the world would be so so much a better place. 

  • in reply to Breadpud

    It really would be better though.  Imagine if everything was done logically, honestly and carefully?  *heaven*

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