Published on 12, July, 2020
I found this article on a routine Google search using the search term 'Autism and anomie'.
It's ten years old now and may be a bit dated. It also, perhaps, doesn't really tell us anything we don't already know. It's 'academic', I'm afraid, so has the usual jargon.
Worth a read, though...
"It's like you are just a spectator in this thing"
I'd be interested to hear opinions...
Interesting, I thought, to read of our experiences from more of a sociological than a psychological perspective.
I was especially interested when it came to the interviews with couples, one of whom was NT and the other ND, and the lack of emotional reciprocity that was often found. One Aspie man was told by a marriage guidance counsellor that he should consider his wife's feelings more. He replied that he would - but he didn't always understand what they were, even when she explained them. Quite!
Fascinating article, thanks for sharing. It led me on to this, which I think you might find interesting too:
‘FILLING IN THE GAPS’: A MICRO-SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF AUTISM by Damian E M Milton
www.larry-arnold.net/.../pdf
A point made really well in this article is that 'theory of mind' deficit model blames autistic people for any failure in communication with NTs:
Rather than lacking a ‘theory of mind’, it is argued here that due to differences in the way autistic people process information, they are not socialised into the same shared ‘ethno’ as ‘neurotypical’ people, and thus ‘breaches’ in understanding happen all the time, leaving both in a state of confusion. The difference is that the neurotypical person can repair the breach, by the reassuring belief that approximately 99 out of 100 people still think and act like they do, and remind themselves that they are the ‘normal’ ones. For McGeer (2004) the ‘theory of mind’ deficit model of autism is a one-sided asymmetrical view of two people failing to understand one another, with the personal accounts of those diagnosed showing that the supposed lack of subjective awareness of self and others is simply untrue.
I changed primary school for a year and got into huge difficulties over the way I wrote 'S' Looking back on it the fuss they made was ridiculous!