If non-autistic people are constantly misunderstanding autistic people maybe there should be some meeting in the middle instead of broadly declaring neurodivergent people to be the problem.

[–] Soulg 23 points 6 months ago (3 children)

They did not in any way "declare neuro divergent people to be the problem."

If you go around your day and are constantly being misheard, it's more likely that you're mumbling than it is that every other person just has bad hearing.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Their comments are making broad statements about autistic people and putting the onus of understanding solely on them, when communication is a two way street.

“Everyone” doesn’t have trouble understanding autistic people; other autistic people are more able to socialize with autistic people than neurotypical people are. Being a minority just means the people who are able to socialize well with autistic people are outnumbered by people who can’t/don’t/won’t.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Wow thank you for sharing. That's a great starting resource

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I don't have a horse in this race, but this is untrue really, majority does not imply correctness, occam's razor just does not apply to hundreds of individuals with their own possibly independent complex motivations and circumstances. There are plenty of things most people are just wrong about and a select few are correct about etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This misses the point completely and kinda pisses me off. If you go around all day constantly BEING A FUCKING AUTIST you're gonna find out that everyone seems just as retarded to you as you seem to them. It's not a fucking matter of diction, dickhead! ;) (sorry, the alliteration was too tempting there, you're not a dickhead) The problem is that for the autist, every conversation tends to be a serious conversation, because it quickly becomes evident that people get pissed off at us in conversation, which makes us really bad at casual conversation.

It's not a matter of diction, it's a matter of literally being an alien consciousness in a world of, frankly, monkeys. Thanks ahead of time for the downvotes for my honesty.

[–] Soulg 1 points 6 months ago

I mean it kinda seems to me like you're just grasping at your condition as an excuse. I am also on the spectrum as is my brother, and surprise, I had to learn how to better express myself.

Just throwing your hands up and blaming everybody else for your problem makes you the problem.