So my friends going to interview me about my autism...

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My friend texts me to say her class for disabilities and illness has a project where her group got picked to study autism and that she wants to interview me, my question is what do you think shes going to ask me?

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"What's it like?"
"Asking me to describe that would give you a similar result if you had asked a dishwasher the same thing. Put short, I have no idea."

I'd say it's like being a Writer who always Writer's Block (And it affects everything you do), with the added complication that the most popular website you frequent is slow and constantly suffers problems.

If it's a class on disabilities, my expectation would be it'll mostly be focussed on how you're limited by your HFA, and how things could be changed to make life easier for you. I'm assuming they'll kick off with asking how you found out you had HFA, whether your parents knew before you did, and how HFA affected you going through school.
Probably then, some questions on how it makes you feel, going into specifics - what are you unable to do that most NTs would find easy, what puts you on edge, etc.
Then, I'm guessing questions about other people's attitudes. Do you feel discriminated against? Do people brush off your condition, tell you to just pull yourself together, etc.
Finally, what do you think ought to be changed to better accommodate you.

It might be possible, depending on how flustered you think this interview may make you, to get some of the questions in advance? Heck, if professional talkers like politicians can get that, they ought to accommodate you if you want a heads up on what they'll be asking.

thanks for ur replies, its not going to be in front of anybody and she already knows i was diagnosed with autism(actually the day i got diagnosed 4 years ago, i told her that day), and we've known each other for many many years so its not going to be hard, but i just always want to prepare before i do it...

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what about just asking her what questions she is going to ask you? just tell her you would like time to prepare your answers. i'm sure she would have no problem with that.

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hi

I had to do something similar.
My psychology professor asked me to speak to the class about Asperger's syndrome.
She said she'd e-mail me a couple days in advance so that I'd have time to prepare, but she thought she was teaching on that subject later than she really was, so on the day of the actual speech, she had me do the whole issue without the advantage I wanted of being fully prepared. I did fine, not nearly as well as I wanted, but still fine.
You will probably be asked for simple, basic information that you should probably already know. She may not even ask for more than what could be found in a short research period.

Since it's already been brought up earlier, what are the differences between high-functioning autism and Asperger's syndrome. I had a paraprofessional who, when speaking of me, always said "high-functioning autism" and never "Asperger's syndrome". I'd imagine there's a reason for that. I had always thought the two were the exact same thing.

My son says that having autism is like playing poker in the dark with blank cards and everyone is smiling WAY too much.

Which means that you are getting appropriate sensory input, but not the input that is needed for you to make an assessment about how to behave (hence the cards, but they are blank). Some input is way too much (hence the smiling) and overloads you because you are looking at it and so distracted by it, but you don't know what the hell it means. But since it's the only input that you do sort of understand (smile=happy) then you zero in on that and forget everything else.