I cannot give up on language, it’s part of being divergent, Autistic.
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I’ve been misunderstood and unheard all my life, but despite that intellectually I have learned this about most people, my fantasies, my dreams are still always and only somehow about being able to talk to someone.
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It is simply not in my “Nature,” to imagine that the point of language is to share something other than the real world,
let alone the very opposite. I cannot accept that it is pathological to be late in learning the mechanics of lying.
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I’m convince the Autistic kids who failed the test had already learned what I finally have about most people, and they ignored the question and tried to solve the real problem instead, the puppet’s lost item. Solving the problem, finding what is lost - this is somehow a lack of empathy, while learning a clever way to steal the item - hiding the painting in the museum to be found and removed the next day, hiding the murder weapon where it will evade the first search and moving it before the detectives figure out to look there, for instance, same thing - learn how that works by the time you’re two or you’re faulty, somehow.
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I feel these Autistic test subject babies were trying to teach the researchers something.
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