We need to stop assuming/pressuming other people's ability to function and support needs.

Collectively as autists, and as a wider society. We need to stop assuming/pressuming other people's ability to function and support needs. Especially online. We are all strangers. Nobody here really knows what it is like to live our lives when we step away from the computer. What we tell people here is just snippets and the basis of absolutely nothing anyone else can say or prescribe with anything other than a faux qualification. Especially the assumption that someone's ability to communicate in a text based format means they do not go or are not in fact nonverbal irl, or has any bearing on the other areas of their life.

That's really it. That's the post.

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  • While I agree to mind unsolicited advice, this IS a forum specifically for autistic and family members of autistic individuals looking for advice. I think that context is not a small detail. :) 

    No one can escape bias, hence critical thinking is invented. And while humans are each unique, we have core similarities. The ability to differentiate is a learned skill which some have a potential for. 

    In my experience, my ADHD friends relish their unique-ness. And my Autistic friends tend toward what connects us / makes us similar. This appears to be one of the soft polarities of the two, but Autistics don't speak 'neurotypical' and this can have a great impact in desiring inclusion, while, as Jung pointed out, it is the collective Language which creates the feeling of being too similar triggering a desire to hide and pretend. So there is that subtle difference.

    We all need anecdotes from time to time. If philosophies didn't ring true to most, or the use of a band aid didn't suit a momentary purpose, these wouldn't exist. 

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  • While I agree to mind unsolicited advice, this IS a forum specifically for autistic and family members of autistic individuals looking for advice. I think that context is not a small detail. :) 

    No one can escape bias, hence critical thinking is invented. And while humans are each unique, we have core similarities. The ability to differentiate is a learned skill which some have a potential for. 

    In my experience, my ADHD friends relish their unique-ness. And my Autistic friends tend toward what connects us / makes us similar. This appears to be one of the soft polarities of the two, but Autistics don't speak 'neurotypical' and this can have a great impact in desiring inclusion, while, as Jung pointed out, it is the collective Language which creates the feeling of being too similar triggering a desire to hide and pretend. So there is that subtle difference.

    We all need anecdotes from time to time. If philosophies didn't ring true to most, or the use of a band aid didn't suit a momentary purpose, these wouldn't exist. 

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