as small as a world and as large as alone

10:20pm November 28, 2011

theskinofourteeth:

THIS JUST IN: RESEARCH SHOWS THAT TEACHING NT KIDS HOW TO BE AROUND AUTISTIC KIDS WITHOUT BEING ASSHOLES RESULTS IN MORE FRIENDSHIP.

WHO KNEW.

I feel like, if someone sat down and cross-referenced first-hand accounts of autistic people with basic developmental psychology, and compiled and then tested a few resultant specific hypothesis, in 20 years we’d know everything we needed to make life okay for us.

Or if we just gave AASPIRE even half the amount of money as A$.

IMAGINE.

Yep. I always wish I could remember exactly which research that is. Because it shows exactly what’s wrong yet nobody ever ever cites it. (It was basically some study where they saw more “improvement in social skills” among autistic kids once they gave nonautistic kids training in how to interact with autistic kids. Yeah, anyone’s “social skills” look better once the people around them stop behaving in confusing, inexplicable, or downright cruel ways, yet (those people around them) get considered “normal” and they don’t. Or something like that, I’m not wording it right. Basically they essentially taught the nonautistic people the real social skills and autistic people suddenly wanted to interact with them.

(More evidence that what get called “social skills” that autistic people are lacking, are… something a bit more complex than that. Somehow the ability to interact properly with people of a different neurological type are not considered social skills, even though those are the ones that practically all autistic and otherwise neuro-atypical people are better at than neurologically standard people are… BECAUSE WE HAVE TO BE IN ORDER TO SURVIVE IN THE WORLD)

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