
Why Social Skills Training is A Waste of Time (If Not Worse)
Socializing isn’t primarily about social skills. In fact, that’s the smallest factor, and the last thing to work on.
Socializing isn’t primarily about social skills. In fact, that’s the smallest factor, and the last thing to work on.
Social skills can be learned. Yes, even by autistic people. But they aren’t often taught to us autistics in the way that autistics learn them.
Social anxiety, or what is often called shyness, is extremely common among autistic kids and adults. Here’s the short version of how it develops.
I’m not great at resting, but I’ve learned a lot and have gotten a lot better at it over the last few years. Here’s my observations of what resting is.
People react to different amounts of sensory input, but even when it’s only a little, it’s not made up.
Non-speaking autism is often misunderstood as an intellectual disability. I think something very different is going on.
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