B19 wrote:
We have to help them overcome their obsession with noisemaking machines like leaf blowers, their annoying stims like clicking pens, and set up special ed. classes as so many are failing in physics, maths and subjects requiring theoretical thought. They over-socialise to compensate their deficits, it has to be seen in perspective.
wait their 'obsession' with noisemaking machines like leaf blowers? Pretty sure they more use those to blow leaves out of their yard/walk way then because they are obsessed with the device...most probably see using one as a hassle that has to be done at least the ones that bother using one.
And last I checked autistic people can stim by clicking pens, probably more likely than a neurotypical even since stimming is actually a trait of autism. I've clicked pens plenty of times in a stimming fashion, or I might chew on it though I try very, very hard not to do that if its not my pen and am borrowing it.
Setting up special ed classes is not a stim
Do you have any evidence to suggest neurotypicals on a large scale are the ones struggling most in physics and math, and this assumption neurotypicals have no capacity for thought is quite a stretch I think. That said I struggled a lot in math and was ok with physics type stuff unless it at all involved math...so well not very good at that either.
And some people regardless of neurotypical or not over-socialize to compensate for defects...its not really a thing that is specific to one neurology.
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