Published on 12, July, 2020
I read on this website that "Other people appear to know, intuitively, how to communicate and interact with each other, but Autistics do not", but believe this statement to be completely untrue in so many ways.
I do not believe that there is any one way to interact and communicate and nor do i believe anyone, even non autistic could possibly be thought of as someone that "knows" how to act and communicate in every given situation.
I believe making wrong statements like this just causes confusion.
Would do you think?
Do you think there are people out there that just intuitively "know" how to act and communicate? In that case, what happens when they come across someone that has more experience and is more intelligent than them?
I know, intuitively, how to act and communicate in any given situation.
Unfortunately, probably due to being autistic, this is not how others expect me to act and communicate. But to me it makes perfect sense and I do not realise I am acting in a 'strange' or 'unacceptable' way.
Not until someone has told me anyway.
So let me understand!
This non autistic person that understands everything and has a great amount of empathy and knows instinctively how to communicate and act has no problem in calling you "strange" and making you feel the size of an ant and completely misunderstanding you, and it is "you" that has the empathy, understanding and rudeness problem?
As far as i can see the only thing wrong with you is that "normal" people are not as great as you think.
They do not know the things you attribute to them and they attribute to themselves.