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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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If someone thinks that autists have trouble communicating, they just need to see us talk to each other!

(Also, I often identified as an alien as a kid.)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't know, I personally have trouble communicating with some fellow autistics sometimes. Autism is a spectrum after all, and I think individual autistic communication is also informed by cultural expectations (ethnicity, race, class, etc) albeit in a different way from how NT communication is shaped. Given that my cultural background is quite different from a typical person, I often run into problems when communicating with other autistics as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's your cultural background?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

That would need a whole article if I were to explain my background, but to put it succintly, I'm a third culture kid who lived in the US and went back to Indonesia.