Jamesy wrote:
why do you think us aspires have little in common with our own generation?
Perhaps what's going on here is that people of our own generation expect to us to read their minds to a greater degree than people of other generations do, because they expect to have more in common with us.
A person who is only interested in making friends who are one's own age is also, likely, looking for people who have enough in common with them to be able to read their mind. Thus they are unlikely to be willing to communicate across an autistic/NT divide.
On the other hand, a person willing to be friends with people in other age groups is also less likely to expect mind-reading and thus better able to handle other differences as well.
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