Looking for book recommendation

 "How to handle Neurotypicals" by Abel Abelson. I found it very interesting.

It explains how we we project our own self-image, or the ideas we have about ourselves, on other people, believing they have the same characteristics we presume we have, but advised that we shouldn't assume that another person is basically or fundamentally the same as us. We should start from thinking they are completely different, while gradually finding convergent points if there are any.

It also touches on the problem we have all had of trying to take off masks and find our true self, which gives rise to a problem in recognising other autistic people: "You might have been so busy overadapting and mimicking neurotypical behavior, and the same may be true for those other people like you, that it has become almost impossible to mutually recognize each other as actually similar beings. You may have been together at the same party, both thoroughly hating every aspect of it, and both so successfully mimicking joy and integration, that you didn’t even recognize each other’s similarities."

It also explains that it's futile expecting other people to change, or trying to change them ourselves, but that we can survive better by finding our own solutions to problems.

Pixiefox, I started yesterday the book. 

It's excelent and i really like it. I'm almost at the middle of it. I'll let you know my progress.

Thanks!

Pixiefox, I started yesterday the book. 

It's excelent and i really like it. I'm almost at the middle of it. I'll let you know my progress.

Thanks!