I always identify asan autistic person—not a “person with autism”—but I switch between calling myself a disabled person and a person with a disability, and I’m comfortable being called a cane user or a person with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Everyone is different, and you want to follow ...
One of the things I can do because I'm autistic — it's an ability rather than a disability — is I've got a very, very vivid imagination. Let me explain it to you a bit. It's like I'm walking in two worlds most of the time. There'sthe real world, the world that we all ...
An autistic person will have emotional empathy, they will ‘feel’ how someone else feels, so detect anger or joy, but they will not understand why. A psychopath is the opposite, they will have neurological empathy, they understand how someone is feeling, and can even use this to manipulate...
A lack of expressed sympathy or empathy may not be the result of a lack of emotion in an autistic person, but rather due to underdeveloped skills. There are several elements involved in showing empathy to others. To connect with another person in these ways, one must: Recognize the other p...
Children from the stars need special attention.Let's do our best to understand them.76.What's the main idea of Paragraph 1?DA.The love of the writer.B.The description of our world.C.The stars of the sky.D.The performance of autistic children.77.When the writer took part in a ...
Jon later told me the need to know exactly where you stand is apparently one of the common problems for many autistic people. There is the constant need for verbal reaffirmation – confirming everything is OK, seeking assurance the girl still likes you, and rushing to book in the next date...
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be accepted for who you truly are, not the person you were when you’re trying hard to fit in," Hiew added. "This is an incredibly empowering place to be, but can cause serious challenges in relationships. As we tend to unmask towards those we love and feel the most comfortable with....
life or well-being for an autistic person may be different to normative societal views and that assuming that non-autistic experiences of well-being neatly ‘map’ onto autistic experiences of it likely does a disservice to our attempts to promote autistic flourishing (Pellicano & Heyworth,2023)...
I mean, basically, I think that human beings always have a kind of vulnerability to outlandish stories, to mysterious kind of explanations for the unknown, for the idea of the person who's behind the scenes kind of pulling the strings for explanations of the world that perhaps rely on ...