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Are autistic people nice people?

soboiceland

I’m curious about how autistic people are perceived socially, particularly around ideas like “niceness” and friendliness, which can be quite subjective and culturally defined.

From your own experiences, how do you interpret or experience interactions with autistic people? Do you think differences in communication style affect how autistic people are perceived as “nice” or not?

For those who have autistic friends (or are autistic themselves), what do you value in those friendships? What do you think autistic people often bring to relationships that might be overlooked or misunderstood?

I don't believe I've had autistic friends and don't seek autistic people out as potential friends so I'm curious to know whether other people are the similar.

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  • I sometimes wonder if ‘nice’ actually is the NT term for NT/non-autistic: I have been an extremely hard-working person and have always gone above and beyond to help others in need but, while they always accept my work or help, they will never return it with friendship. Its almost as if NTs sub-consciously detect and reject autistic people as not being ‘nice’, i.e., the very definition of ‘nice’ is ‘not autistic’.

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  • I sometimes wonder if ‘nice’ actually is the NT term for NT/non-autistic: I have been an extremely hard-working person and have always gone above and beyond to help others in need but, while they always accept my work or help, they will never return it with friendship. Its almost as if NTs sub-consciously detect and reject autistic people as not being ‘nice’, i.e., the very definition of ‘nice’ is ‘not autistic’.

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