I have known JW myself so I have first hand experience of them. In some respects I think they are bit naive, not very academically bright but they are not thick or uneducated as they appear to have mastered the primary school basics, and sometimes ignorant and unwilling to research or investigate certain things deeper. What is noticeable about them is that they are always very polite and well mannered and presentable people who seem to have good knowledge of etiquette and unwritten social rules. Remember that they deal with people on the doorstep from across the spectrum of society from council estates to affluent suburbs so they must have the abilities to communicate across this spectrum.
I think MattBucks is cutting himself a bit short by focusing on indoctrination and failing to look into the JW in sufficient detail from every perspective. How are they with people when not trying to indoctrinate them at the doorstep?
There is definitely evidence that the worst effects of AS can be overcome by the right sort of social skills training and not allowing children to get stressed out and bullied at school, or made to feel like they are failures and losers. Reading between the lines MattBucks looks like he is trying to say that you can't really do anything to help people with AS socially they are what they are so it's up to them to sort their own lives out. I disagree with him.
I agree with everything your saying except for that we are naive and unwilling to research. As an ASD JW, I have spent years researching and backing up my beliefs on pure logic and scientific evidence. I can assure you most witnesses have done the same. We aren’t naive (Ik it appears that way). As an autistic myself, I am incredibly intelligent (don’t mean this to come off as boosting, just proving a point), so I need pure logic and research to understand something. In terms of education, yes we don’t all seek fur ty we education because we don’t want to seek a job that is gonna take up most our lives. Some of us do go to further education and we voluntarily work (without pay) at places we call ‘Bethel’. This is place where everyone is witnesses, working for free voluntarily. (We are provided with food, housing, etc.) The doctors work for free and are witnesses too. We are not pressured to do this, it’s our own choice. Hope this informs you. There is a lot more to us than what you see
I agree with everything your saying except for that we are naive and unwilling to research. As an ASD JW, I have spent years researching and backing up my beliefs on pure logic and scientific evidence. I can assure you most witnesses have done the same. We aren’t naive (Ik it appears that way). As an autistic myself, I am incredibly intelligent (don’t mean this to come off as boosting, just proving a point), so I need pure logic and research to understand something. In terms of education, yes we don’t all seek fur ty we education because we don’t want to seek a job that is gonna take up most our lives. Some of us do go to further education and we voluntarily work (without pay) at places we call ‘Bethel’. This is place where everyone is witnesses, working for free voluntarily. (We are provided with food, housing, etc.) The doctors work for free and are witnesses too. We are not pressured to do this, it’s our own choice. Hope this informs you. There is a lot more to us than what you see
