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A community for anyone to ask autistic people questions: non-autistic people to learn about the autistic experience and autistic people to get information or validation from their peers.

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How to be understood by others? (lemmy.autism.place)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Things that have helped me be understood:

Reading tons of fiction. Good storytelling is an art, and following the masters has helped me.
Joining a men’s group. It’s helped me resolve emotional hangups that prevented me from communicating what I felt in the nonverbal signals that evoke people’s empathic response.
Becoming a better listener. More time spent caring about others and processing others’ stories programs the brain with the common language of shared experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I agree with reading fiction and good storytelling: that's why I read Herman Melville (Moby Dick) and Mike Mignola (Hellboy)
Uh...where can I find a men's group?
This would be my least greatest specialty, unless I have people I actually trust?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I recommend Stephen King too
Google. I’m part of a larger organization called the Mankind Project, but there are many others
You don’t need to trust people very much to listen to them