naturalplastic wrote:
I cant tell "just by looking at someone" one time obviously. But if you work with a person for a long time you pick up clues. One coworker guy, though around 40, acted like a 12 year old version of me (less street wise, and even more dorky than I act now). Half of the work force would ridicule and bully him, and the other half would sorta baby him because he was "special". I wouldnt bully him, but I would be frustrated with him because he wouldnt master certain basic skills of the job like a certain thing like touch typing- that I had sense enough to force myself to learn early on to survive in the job. Then I was gossiping with a coworker low level supervisor lady - who told me that he was in fact an aspie (she had signed papers so he could leave for shrink appointments, and she said "I was a psych major and could tell he was anyway".
Like gaydar you should usually take your own thoughts with a grain of salt. But as with gaydar you cant not make guesses about folks around you because humans are wired to do that to survive.
But unlike "gaydar", which both straights and gays wonder if they "have" because both groups are obsessed with sex, its only autistics who think about "detecting autism". NTs dont concern themselves with uncovering autism (as such) in others like they do with determining sexual orientation. Or at least thats how it was for most of my lifetime. There maybe more "autism awareness" in society now than I am aware of. An autistic might worry about being 'found out', but NTs arent likely to think "this person is autistic". They will just think "this person is...weird...ret*d...impaired...or 'special' in some way".
Highly inappropriate, possibly even illegal, for his boss to share the fact he's on the spectrum.
01 Apr 2023, 5:54 am
