SteelMaiden wrote:
Are people with Autism more inclined to have different views towards babies than NTs?
I personally cannot stand babies. Even looking at them makes me feel sick, but I think that is because I have OCD issues about the contents of their nappies.....let's just say I could NEVER change a nappy (known as a diaper in the US); I would run away screaming. Also they scream/cry, which I cannot cope with due to hypersensitivity.
This year i will marry and my partner and I plan to have babies. So my mother in law also asked question about your thematic, but i do not think, that it will be that hard for me. So sure, you cannot compare a pet with a baby, but if my malecat had an operation and he awakes from the medication, he is afraid, tries to reach his higher spotted hiding places, which he cant because he is still tumbling around and endangers himself with that behaviour. So the only place where he relaxes in that situations is sleeping while cosing me. So normally when he had his tooth operation there is bleeding spit running from his mouth, normally he pukes when he awakes and he doesnt seem to recognize when he has to piss. So i really do not enjoy having him sleeping and cuddling with me in that situations, but i dont freak out either. Its as it is.
Same goes with all the other stuff like puking hairballs on the floor or when he misses the cat toilette and so on... i really, really do not enjoy it, but it is as it is and mourning wont make him aim better next time. ^^
So i dont know if its about my static face or something in the way i look, but i seem to be relaxing to babies. So if i am told to look for a babie, they normally calm down, seem to be fascinated at something of me some minutes and then start to sleep or look around and so on. I think maybe they like that i am not into this focusing on babies and cuddling and endless babytalk but normally i just take them, "pet" them softly with one hand and let them do what they want instead of drawing their attention on me every second. Generally its easier for me to interact with children, because until a certain age, they just tell you what they are thinking, so conversation is pretty easy for me and i dont have to guess all the time, what people really mean.