Is it possible to "teach" emotional maturity?

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muslimmetalhead
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23 May 2012, 3:21 pm

There's a bunch of things that I could write down that I've learned over the last few years about people skills.


Though, I wonder, could you teach someone them through memorization and application?


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23 May 2012, 5:31 pm

In the last year and a half, my son, diagnosed with AS, has been through several intensive therapies involving social skills training and pragmatic speech. Just from that, he's gone from extremely impaired to just a little odd in that time frame; it's a truly incredible transformation. In my experience, I would say yes.

I think some of it is that people on the autism spectrum have incredible cognitive abilities, and are MORE capable of learning things cognitively than an NT would be. The question is, are you able to generalize, or do you require a specific script for every situation, even if it's only slightly different? People with the former ability will do better than those in the latter situation.

I am pretty sure I learned what social skills I have from acting classes. Script analysis in particular.