I feel like, this needs to be solved. So, autistic people are better able to integrate into society.

But, how do we do that?

I just wonder, if being awkward doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

2 comments

  1. This is a uniformity problem, like dyslexia. If everyone had brains like dyslexics, English wouldn’t use the same symbol for q, p, d, and p. Each would be its own design and no one would get confused and no one would need special training.

    Society has lots of non autistic people, who express cues and read cues at NT levels and NT speeds. This creates a standard that others can’t achieve so they struggle. If the whole world was autistic, cues and expectations for cues would be at autistic levels. No one would get confused and no one would need special training.

    Eventually the world will speak one shared language based on one shared culture and one (flexible) set of social rules. We can make that happen sooner but like learning metric, would take actual effort from both sides.

  2. I agree with the other commenter that this is an uniformity problem. “Solving” it would through some many cultural changes that I think it’s way too big to write here.

    In an individual level, tho, I think it’s beneficial to all when NTs have a “one foot in, one foot out” kind of approach (English not my first language, sorry). What I mean is: being aware the person you’re talking to and relating is autistic and may struggle with some things a neurotypical person wouldn’t – and therefore, be understanding with it. At the same time, remembering they’re first and foremost also a human being who needs getting to know to be better understood and dealt with, regardless of neurological differences.

    My bf is autistic and I’m NT and the whole process of us getting to know how each other functioned was really nice. Him being autistic was really secondary to me, even though there are moments in which it’s really expressive. He gets along with my friends just fine, but it helps that most of them have some kind of experience dealing with autistic persons or share the “human being first and foremost, let’s get to know each other” mentality. He also gets along with his NT friends, who share his interests and now field of work

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