"mind reading"?

Welcome to this site and I hope that you do find the support, encouragement and answers to your questions. I have not heard of mind reading used in the context of understanding or recognising emotions. Particularly for a person with autism. My son has severe autism and cannot understand emotions himself. - He has severe learning disabilities as well - There are techniques often quoted as beneficial, Nuro linguistic programming (NLP) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapies (CBT) which is used correctly can help a person to identify various emotions and how to manage them. These techniques are dependant upon a person being able to explain 'how' they feel in various situations and why, and this can lead on to developing a plan of action to overcome intense emotions such as anxiety, or depression or even happiness. If a person, like our son, is unable to explain their own emotions and feelings in these situations, we have to do that for him by way of using his body language in various situations to know if he is comfortable or not. I think offering you this tool in itself without that explanation is not very helpful and maybe a first action on your part could be to go back to whoever explained this to you and ask them to explain. I would add another slant to this and that is that a person with autism, needs society to understand their understanding of the world and it is 'they' who should be taking time to understand and leaning how to express themselves in a way that can be understood. Good luck with this and I would be delighted to hear how you get on for those of us who also do not really understand what was suggested to you. 

Welcome to this site and I hope that you do find the support, encouragement and answers to your questions. I have not heard of mind reading used in the context of understanding or recognising emotions. Particularly for a person with autism. My son has severe autism and cannot understand emotions himself. - He has severe learning disabilities as well - There are techniques often quoted as beneficial, Nuro linguistic programming (NLP) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapies (CBT) which is used correctly can help a person to identify various emotions and how to manage them. These techniques are dependant upon a person being able to explain 'how' they feel in various situations and why, and this can lead on to developing a plan of action to overcome intense emotions such as anxiety, or depression or even happiness. If a person, like our son, is unable to explain their own emotions and feelings in these situations, we have to do that for him by way of using his body language in various situations to know if he is comfortable or not. I think offering you this tool in itself without that explanation is not very helpful and maybe a first action on your part could be to go back to whoever explained this to you and ask them to explain. I would add another slant to this and that is that a person with autism, needs society to understand their understanding of the world and it is 'they' who should be taking time to understand and leaning how to express themselves in a way that can be understood. Good luck with this and I would be delighted to hear how you get on for those of us who also do not really understand what was suggested to you.