Comments on: Learning communication skills from autistic people.

By: Ziele von Autismus-Kultur

Ziele von Autismus-Kultur — Fri, 01 Jan 2016 01:26:07 +0000

[…] und geschätzt werden. Autist_innen können z.B. sehr gut von anderen Autist_innen lernen (siehe Learning communication skills from autistic people.). Das sollte bei Bildungsangeboten berücksichtigt […]

By: Ziele von Autismus-Kultur

Ziele von Autismus-Kultur — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 01:28:34 +0000

By: ballastexistenz

ballastexistenz — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:49:51 +0000

Yeah. That shared context is what I see when I even watch other autistic people, and it's one reason I'm always so surprised to see us seen as unaware of our surroundings. Because so often, it seems like we're reacting directly to all kinds of things in our surroundings.

By: zilari

zilari — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 03:35:34 +0000

I am tired right now but I did want to say that this post makes all kinds of sense…I completely know what you mean about certain people having a kind of shared context. The sensation of knowing that context is there is something I didn’t know existed until I started communicating with other autistic people.

By: Yarrow^Amorpha

Yarrow^Amorpha — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 02:19:30 +0000

...hm. The feeling of being communicated at and not to, that someone is just talking at this illusion of you that isn't you or anything like you and is apparently saying totally different things than you're saying, is familiar. Except in our case, I think we were unfortunately complicit in helping to create and maintain that illusion, because we knew many people were going to keep seeing it instead of what was there, but we figured out at some point that at some times, for some people, we could control the illusion that they saw. So there were all these people thinking they saw the lights on, but in reality, those lights were coming from props in a stage house, that was actually in front of a whole bunch of other houses. But many people didn't see the other houses because they weren't part of their shared illusory frame of reference, in which there was just the one house; or if they saw it at all, they could only see them as branches or disconnected portions of the original house. Or they just saw some bizarre thing that had even less connection to our reality than that.

By: mcewen

mcewen — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:32:45 +0000

‘I know that there are parents out there who treat it like a joke that autistics could teach other autistics to communicate or navigate in the world.’
I don’t know about other parents, but you’re certainly helping me. Best wishes