Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm told that autistic people have areas of special interest, mine is humans, I know I am one, I know others are too, but I don't understand my own species, so I study them, I didn't realise until a year or so ago that I was doing it. I used to be a counsellor and was quite good at it, I think it was because of not despite being autistic, it allows me to see others problems as an abstract whilst still empathising. I think we get told we're not good with emotions, personally I think that rubbish, we might feel overwhelmed by them and some people seem to have storm force auras, but we do feel.
What are your specialisms and interests?
I think the reason it's told autistics are not good with emotions is that some autistics have Alexthymia which I've recently suspected I might have too.
About interests, I don't have any I can talk about like you did. I like too many things in life and I've learnt that that's ok too.