https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40489-025-00494-1
More 'oops' in new autism research, 2025.
For decades, autistic ppl have been told that we are rubbish at 'social reciprocity'.
Except, teams haven't a clue what they mean by that. Endless wild guesses.
I never know whether 🤣 or 👀 is most appropriate.
More 'oops' in new autism research, 2025.
For decades, autistic ppl have been told that we are rubbish at 'social reciprocity'.
Except, teams haven't a clue what they mean by that. Endless wild guesses.
I never know whether 🤣 or 👀 is most appropriate.
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Smiling at someone.
Exchanging gifts.
Helping someone who has helped us.
Taking turns while talking/playing.
Well, I simply disagree, based on decades of observation.
Not a clue between them.
So if I'm the other side of the room, chatting, that's not reciprocal enough, eh? Who decided that?/
Others decided if they give a 'relevant' answer to a question. In whose view?
Who has the power here?
Always reflect on this.
Smiling is often a motor co-ordination thing, not lack of reciprocity.
Gifts - unexpected sensory nightmares in wrapping paper are often unwelcome. Our gifts may be culturally correct for other autistic ppl, e.g. the gift of long stories/a precious item of ours.
Why not ask autistic people? So easy.
Kinda like double-tapping to jump ahead on a video.
Some appreciate the efficiency, others...
It took writing that out to realize that both of us being good at that is probably a big part of why I feel so close to a certain friend I haven't actually known all that long.
So, having created a nonsense as an alleged fact, they don't even know what they mean, it turns out.
I just..gee.
What an industry...
Glad of those getting things right, and being bold enough to ask good questions of ancient myths.
I often DON’T Experience reciprocity concerns in my evals bc no cross-neurotype difficulties
A non autistic diagnostician may rank those same clients VERY differently than I but it’s never been a dealbreaker in the rubric for diagnosis
No wonder those like myself are not believed because we have some accepted social interaction. At 73 it's taken a lot of work to get here with no acknowledgement. We the forgotten generation.
The generation who came after us Boomers has no idea what kind of DIY analysis many of us "weird kids"(the technical term?) had to undergo prior to further enlightenment from the infinite wisdom of the DSM.
To this day, the "experts" continue to speculate, but ignore *our experience