I like to talk with my mum. Is that normal for autistics?

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Explain the original post to me.

Do neurotypicals like talking to their parents?
Or do nt's dislike talking to their parents?

Why would autistics or aspies differ in their need to talk to their parents than nt's?

My Aspergers would be unbearable if it wasn't for my mom.

I can count myself among all those posting above who have said they were very close to their mothers and talk to them a lot.

Honestly, my mother and I are like the Gilmore Girls, except I'm not a girl!

I can't comment on how it's special for Aspies or Auties to either enjoy or not enjoy talking with their parents. I think this is independent of autism.

I usually like to talk to my mother, although I like it less and less as I understand my own impairments more and more, and she keeps doing stuff like complaining because I didn't interpret a facial expression or gesture correctly. Or, for that matter, actually have a conversation with me (wanders off, makes phone calls, talks to someone else while I am still talking). A lot of this started after I was officially diagnosed as autistic, which kind of makes me wonder.

In a paper she sent to SSA she said I hardly ever talk to her. I actually put a lot of effort into trying to talk to her, but it gets undercut so easily, and she undercuts it so easily, that I wonder why I bother.

Er, that's mostly my personal drama: Yes, it's normal for autistic people to like talking to their mums. I know of people all over the spectrum who talk to their parents and who at least do not indicate that they dislike it.

This post makes zero sense.

If they mean that "autistics dont like talking to ANYbody" then that is a common stereotype. Like all stereotypes its not always true (some folks on the spectrum are chatterboxes) but many autistics are reclusive and dont like interact with anyone.

But Ive never heard that autistics hate talking to their parents MORE than they hate talking to other people.

Some autistics are afraid of strangers and ONLY talk to trusted family members.


Then there are others who have issues with their parents and become mute around them, but do speak to folks outside of the nuclear family. In fact that was the storyline of the first major motion picture with an autistic character I know of-made back in the sixties ( about a secondarily mute boy who bonds with a horse on the yorkshire moors- forget the title of the movie).

All kinds of premutations of behavior are possible, but thinking that a diagnostic trait of autism is that you "hate talking to your own parents" is absurd.

So ( i dont know if this is good news or bad news for you) but the fact that you like talking to your parents doesnt disprove that you have autism or AS, or whatever.