Autistic Thoughts

[kippurbird]

Social Cues

God does not play dice with the universe: He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time. -- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)

The above quote also describes how the autistic person feels when dealing with non-autistic (normal) people in every day social actions. And to make things even worse, the poor autistic person is supposed to know the rules and isn't supposed to let anyone else know that that don't know the rules because then they'd be laughed at. And to make matters worse the rules will change on a moment's notice for no concivable reason that the autistic person can phathom and by the time that they realize that the rules have changed, there may have been five or six more changes that have already gone by .
Is it any wonder why we hate social situations? Here we think we're playing ping-pong but instead we're really playing batmitton but with tennis rackets and dice. And by the way don't even bother to ask where the net is, because you don't need it, you need to hit that puck into the basketball hoop but only when that person smiles. No not like that I said when the person frowns, can't you pay attention to what I'm saying you stupid idiot?
Yeah.

Generalization

Another thing that autistic people sometimes have problems with is generalization. Basically that's the ability to learn something and apply it to different situations. For a simple example, take a vending machine. If you can't generalize you would have to learn how to use a vending machine over and over again because each vending machine would be "new" because it wasn't the same one as the last one. And it's not because if it were the same thing, there would be only one.
Now normal people, I think, can over generalize. I think that's how we get sterotypes. After all they seem to think that if a few people of a certain group are ... terrorists or something, then everyone in the group are terrorists. Or whatever.
So Autistic people are too narrow minded when it comes to these things and Normal people are too open minded.
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in another story all together, I found a roommate! yayyayayayay!!!!

Comments

[karaotter.livejournal.com]

Would you mind if I sent this to my mom? She had to raise an autistic person (my brother) and I think she might like it. I know that I found it informational.

And congratulations on your new roommate!

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Sure, go for it. I put it up to be helpful.