What gives us the same challenges?

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Blind people have to deal with not being able to see and death have to cope with being hard of hearing.


So what gives us with Aspergers the same challenges as the blind and deaf? Is it poor communication skills?

Because most NT people look at it as and may not discern our behavior different from someone who just want's to behave badly and that make being a aspie such a hard thing.

BTW: the word you are looking for in that top sentence is "deaf" not "death"

It's hard to say really, since Autism is a very wide spectrum and affects every Autistic person in different ways. I think most, if not all of us face some sort of issue in the social area in some sort of way, but not the same thing. The way I see it, the only the time the words ''all Aspies/Autistics'' should be said together in the same sentence is when you say ''all Aspies/Autistics are humans''. Otherwise, when it comes to discussing symptoms, it is never a case of ''all'' really. Well, ''never'' might be a strong word if I am missing a point I am not aware of, but as far as I'm concerned, the Autism spectrum is so vast and the symptoms are so complex in each individual, that it's hard to pinpoint certain symptoms and just say ''oh yeah, all Aspies have that''.

There are a lot of things that the majority of Aspies have, but it still does not apply to every single Aspie that's ever walked this Earth. Like you get questions come up on WP asking ''do all Aspies have X?'' And the answer is no. I can read body language quite easily, for as long as I can remember, and maybe I have picked it up from observing NT behaviour I experienced through school or watching films and cartoons, but I know I have never sat down and learnt it manually. Reading body language has never been an issue of mine. Even a social worker told me that years ago when I was still a child, and she was a good social worker. Or maybe it's just always been a social strength of mine. Even us Aspie all have strengths and weaknesses, even in the social area. So even though issues with reading body language is common among people on the spectrum, it is still unnecessary to assume that EVERY Aspie cannot read body language without having to manually learn it from a book.

Sorry, I trailed off a bit there.

I don't think you trailed off. You made a point that needed to be made.

Wait we have the same challenges as blind and deaf people? don't know about that......I mean a blind person can't see that is a challenge, I don't share that challenge as I can see and with deafness...well I can hear so I do not have that challenge that deaf people do. Perhaps there are common challenges among all three but also very different challenges.