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What its like to be autistic in other countries

Billy87

As someone who has always wanted to travel the world but not been able to due to my struggles with any change to my routine, I am facinated with what it must be like to be autistic in other countires and whether there are any societies that it might be easier to live in than our own. Ive always felt that although the UK has more support and understanding than many countries, British culture and way of life is so difficult to understand and live in as an autistic person. Even though Ive lived in it most of my life, most of it makes no sense to me

So I read that in Holland autistic people can get extra support like taking someone for free with them to things like zoos and attractions for support and that if we have an autism card we can skip queues if we feel sensory overload and stuff like that

Since I was a little kid I have been facinated with German culture, everything about it, like food, music, football, films, way of life. It just makes so much sense to me. Lately I have got really into Swiss culture too. German culture is one of my special interests and I think Switzerland is too. I read a wonderful quote today "If autistic people ran a country it would look very much like Germany or Switzerland". Maybe thats why.


Does anyone have any experiences of being autistic in other countries? Im really interested 

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  • I lived for 3 years in Bratislava, and for 14 years in Brighton, and I say it's easier to look normal,

    every autistic youtube channel maker says so as well, 

    just avoid people of the same nationality, they would see through it,

    the way we speak, can be taken for foreign accent,

    acting weird or preference to loneliness as being shy because of inadequate language fluency

    and so on

    living abroad falls into 4th category of types of masking called accommodation strategies, those are recommended for us, because they go on passive, and do not make us anxious

    and learning languages is easy, you just need to know few tricks:

    learn grammar as soon as possible

    perform everyday dialogs in your head 

    read whatever you can to expand vocabulary

    try to start to think in that language

    if you do not know the word, check it right away, on your phone for example

    use that language dictionary, do not translate back to english

    tell people around to correct your incorrect pronunciation whenever they notice something

    so now I live here, I use english to english e.g cambridge dictionary

    Holland and NZ are the most autistic friendly as far as I know

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  • I lived for 3 years in Bratislava, and for 14 years in Brighton, and I say it's easier to look normal,

    every autistic youtube channel maker says so as well, 

    just avoid people of the same nationality, they would see through it,

    the way we speak, can be taken for foreign accent,

    acting weird or preference to loneliness as being shy because of inadequate language fluency

    and so on

    living abroad falls into 4th category of types of masking called accommodation strategies, those are recommended for us, because they go on passive, and do not make us anxious

    and learning languages is easy, you just need to know few tricks:

    learn grammar as soon as possible

    perform everyday dialogs in your head 

    read whatever you can to expand vocabulary

    try to start to think in that language

    if you do not know the word, check it right away, on your phone for example

    use that language dictionary, do not translate back to english

    tell people around to correct your incorrect pronunciation whenever they notice something

    so now I live here, I use english to english e.g cambridge dictionary

    Holland and NZ are the most autistic friendly as far as I know

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