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Totally agree, socialising in a school environment is not like real-life relationships and is damaging to autistic and ND people. I believe school harmed my ability to communicate and I learnt maladaptive reactions which affected negatively as an adult.
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In school there are harsh social penalties for not fitting in academically, in how you look and how you speak, in what hobbies you have, how you dressand opinions you have. This is exacerbated by everyone being the same age and expected to go through a curriculum simultaneously
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We all tend to exaggerate, or be loose with certain facts. But often, particularly in heated situations, it can be a huge stumbling block for an autistic brain...
"Why do you never do this?"
"Well, I do, sometimes."
"That's not my point."
"But that's what you said."
This definitely resonated:
"...the education system wasn’t set up in a way that I was able to function there. It crowbars you into a certain way of thinking and being... being forced to learn [x] when your brain doesn’t work like that. What a waste of your childhood"
Melanie Sykes calls for education system to be ‘torn down and rebuilt’ to help autistic people theguardian.com/society/2021…
Article is well worth taking a look at especially for non autistic people
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Big LGBT+ news from Germany 🇩🇪🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
The governing coalition deal includes a new self-ID law, a total ban on conversion therapy, repealing the restrictions on gay and bi men donating blood and financial compensation for trans victims of forced sterilization, among other things.
A Spectrum10K spokesperson said
“We recognise that the vast majority of critical comments about Spectrum 10K are made by people who are voicing legitimate concerns."
It's good to be acknowledged, the study still needs to stop though #stopspectrum10k
Thanks Liam for this research
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There's this massive stereotype that autistic people are ardent and unquestioning rule followers, but in my experience we are far more likely to question and criticise those rules, and why they are the way they are, than to just blithely follow them.
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It's kind of amazing to me that autistic people have been gaslit into assuming they must have bad people skills & don't understand anything
only because the measurement of understanding
is having a non-autistic brain and assuming every other person works like you do.
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What I enjoy is being part of the soundscape and feeling the music creates. I connect deeply to music, but in my own way and I feel that someone else's lyrics detracts from that rather than adds to it because it asks me to limit the interpretation of the music by framing it 1/6
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Here are some examples of what lyrics which seem clear to the ordinary person sound like to me:
Aftermath by Caravan Palace has quite muffled, distorted lyrics which people can hear a lot of different things in. 5/6 youtu.be/imCd-m32oAs
Then in Crimewave by Crystal Castles, when the voices overlap that's quite like what it sounds like for me when there's voice playing at the same time as background music. The background overlaps and distorts the voice. 6/6 youtu.be/ayc4Nv1fnZY
One of the most frustrating and disappointing part of communicating with NTs
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