This thought came up yesterday on another thread, but the more I ponder it, the more it fits. Being Autistic is just like being hearing impaired from birth. Out efforts to cognitively learn how to read non-verbal cues and the unspoken rules is like a deaf person trying to learn how to read lips. Our efforts to learn how to put up an NT persona to present to the world is like a deaf person trying to learn how speak.
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If it don't come easy . . . .
. . . .hack it until it works right
Aspie score: 142/200 NT score: 64/200
AQ Score: 42
BAP: 109 aloof, 94 rigid and 85 pragmatic