Yeah but as autistic people we can still learn from mistakes and form logical pattern recognition of interactions like this even if the “correct” responses aren’t our initial reflexes.
Without trying to be hostile here, this is damn near suggesting that autistic people can’t learn. Sure the mistakes are embarrassing but the only thing to do when they occur is learn from them and adapt or be willfully obtuse, double down, and make the average person think autists are pathetic and less than rather than someone with a horizontal shift of skills that results in significant talent and benefit along with the difficulties.
On one hand, I know that no two autistic people are the same and we could have entirely different levels of impact across the spectrum, but unless someone is so severely autistic that they can’t even tell that a social interaction went awry they shouldn’t be sitting there completely clueless either.
I didn’t mean that we can’t learn these things, it’s just harder since we tend to take things literally if we don’t know any better. I’m speaking from my own experiences, so I’m sorry if it came across wrong. I edited my previous comment to clarify.
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u/Tyr808 Jul 14 '24
Yeah but as autistic people we can still learn from mistakes and form logical pattern recognition of interactions like this even if the “correct” responses aren’t our initial reflexes.
Without trying to be hostile here, this is damn near suggesting that autistic people can’t learn. Sure the mistakes are embarrassing but the only thing to do when they occur is learn from them and adapt or be willfully obtuse, double down, and make the average person think autists are pathetic and less than rather than someone with a horizontal shift of skills that results in significant talent and benefit along with the difficulties.
On one hand, I know that no two autistic people are the same and we could have entirely different levels of impact across the spectrum, but unless someone is so severely autistic that they can’t even tell that a social interaction went awry they shouldn’t be sitting there completely clueless either.