Chaser on I'm A Celeb

How are you finding watching Anne? It's good to hear her explaining what it is like to be autistic but I don't find it easy to see her distress. The whole programme is a bit distasteful to me this year - the viper challenge could permanently traumatise someone scared of snakes. 

I just heard from my sister ASDs are being featured on Channel 5 News at 6.30pm tonight. About to start any minute...

It was difficult seeing her struggle, but if it highlights the misconception of her coping in whatever that other program is then let it be so. I only heard the others say she isn’t at all like she comes across in the chase, 

currently watching this and the news item about her and adults with autism on channel five news, the others seem to be surprised how nice and kind she is? No surprise to me, every Autistic I know is kind and caring.

:-)

Think school might complain if she went in with hang over! But tempting ...

More gin! :-)

Yep, sorry not entirely with it today daughter only slept for about an hour last night so totally my misunderstanding there

Yes.  I think we're both in agreement :-).  I was just trying to say I think we might exhibit our empathy differently to what NT people expect, so they *perceive* us not to have empathy.  Does that make better sense?

I don't think you lack empathy either I was just saying that is what us nt's are told to expect from an autistic person and it is simply not true 

I don't think we lack empathy, I think we're probably differently empathic.  Plus I suspect we struggle to spot what things NT want us to do when they are distressed, or we find doing such things difficult.  So they perceive us as not having empathy because we don't do the things they want to fulfil their needs.

Think I can shed some light on this, us nt's the basic information we get about autism is that autistic people lack empathy (one of the main symptoms listed ) this was the main reason I doubted my daughter having asd when she was younger as she is kind and caring and I had always been taught autistics weren't. After alot of research and talking to people on here I found that is simply not true. The kindness shown here is simply amazing and I wish everyone could demonstrate it maybe the world would be a better place. I feel bad that I have been misinformed all these years this community has truly opened my eyes. Thank you 

Think I can shed some light on this, us nt's the basic information we get about autism is that autistic people lack empathy (one of the main symptoms listed ) this was the main reason I doubted my daughter having asd when she was younger as she is kind and caring and I had always been taught autistics weren't. After alot of research and talking to people on here I found that is simply not true. The kindness shown here is simply amazing and I wish everyone could demonstrate it maybe the world would be a better place. I feel bad that I have been misinformed all these years this community has truly opened my eyes. Thank you 

:-)

Think school might complain if she went in with hang over! But tempting ...

More gin! :-)

Yep, sorry not entirely with it today daughter only slept for about an hour last night so totally my misunderstanding there

Yes.  I think we're both in agreement :-).  I was just trying to say I think we might exhibit our empathy differently to what NT people expect, so they *perceive* us not to have empathy.  Does that make better sense?

I don't think you lack empathy either I was just saying that is what us nt's are told to expect from an autistic person and it is simply not true 

I don't think we lack empathy, I think we're probably differently empathic.  Plus I suspect we struggle to spot what things NT want us to do when they are distressed, or we find doing such things difficult.  So they perceive us as not having empathy because we don't do the things they want to fulfil their needs.