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9:24am July 19, 2014
Anonymous asked: what method of nonverbal communication do you think is most universal among auties?

madeofpatterns:

withasmoothroundstone:

I’m not sure I understand the question.  Are you talking about body language and things like that?

Autistic people just have ways we have when we feel certain ways, just like everyone else.  Sometimes those ways are the same as they would be for a nonautistic person.  Sometimes they’re radically different.

I’ve noticed that a lot can be read from the way a person is stimming.  Like there’s lots of different ways rocking or hand flapping can look, and each one conveys something subtly different about the person’s mood and feelings.

And our body language also shows things like what we are paying attention to (which may not be the obvious thing we’re looking at sort of thing), what things in our environment are we reacting to, etc.

Also with all of this, sometimes the communication is at least partially deliberate, and sometimes it’s entirely involuntary, but it still communicates information whether it’s intentional or not.

Is any of this what you’re after?

I wish people would realize that visible stimming can mean things other than distress.

some of mine mean “hello”

I wish people realized that too.

Hell, I wish more autistic people realized that.