Do Autistic people live in their own little world?

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04 Sep 2018, 2:34 pm

ASPartOfMe wrote:

Some Autistics say I am my own person, screw these labels, identity politics is toxic and I want no part of it.

i feel that way a lot... but i do like this community and found people relatable here more so than other communities so identification is not all bad

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07 Sep 2018, 7:53 am

I resent the implication that my world is "little".

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07 Sep 2018, 9:23 am

hobojungle wrote:

Why wouldn’t we live in our own little worlds? Sure beats the alternative.

You do make a valid point, for in my my unorthodox autistic there is no malevolence..

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07 Sep 2018, 10:12 am

In my experience, some autistics are capable of prejudices and groupthink. Autistics aren't always separate from the flaws of the world. We are people, just like anyone else.

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07 Sep 2018, 10:24 am

TheAP wrote:

In my experience, some autistics are capable of prejudices and groupthink. Autistics aren't always separate from the flaws of the world. We are people, just like anyone else.

True autistic people have their own flaws but, that is part of what it means to be human as, there is no sense of perfection on any level which could ever be achieved. I try to acknowledge my own difficulties without trying to find fault in others.

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07 Sep 2018, 10:56 am

"........culturally isolates Autistic people from their environment." I agree.

"In a way, Autistic people have their own unique individual cultures. In that sense, we truly do live in our own little worlds. We live in our own little worlds, not because we choose to or because we fail to understand the world we live in (some Autistic understand actually the world far better than many “Neurotypicals”), but because our inability to relate to the culture we live among sets us apart from that culture." I agree.

"Consider how it would feel to be a North-American or Western-European living as the sole immigrant in a rural community in East-Asia, sub-Saharan Africa or South-America. That is exactly how a person with Autism experiences every day social interactions." I have always felt like a foreigner in my own country, community. In the culture, but not able to fully identify as part of the culture.

"Ironically, this makes Autistic people more adapted to living among people of a different culture. One one hand, it’s because people tend to be more forgiving about social mistakes and quirky behavior when faced with a foreigner. On another hand, that’s because people with Autism are so used to living among people who identify with a culture that feels alien to them that actually living among a foreign culture feels only marginally more alien than their every day experience." I could see this. I've been to a number of foreign countries and I didn't really feel much more out of place than growing up/living in the U.S.

My world is largely in my head.

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07 Sep 2018, 11:24 am

Yep I agree we Autistics can space out in our own world.

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30 Sep 2018, 3:32 pm

It was certainly said about me, a lot, when I was in primary school..

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30 Sep 2018, 3:37 pm

> "Do Autistic People Live In Their Own Little World?

I live in my own big world.

It's other people who live in little worlds.

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19 Oct 2018, 12:55 pm

I have my own culture. It's the culture of peas. I love stuffed Sweet Peas. I have a whole bunch of them.

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19 Oct 2018, 1:07 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:

I have my own culture. It's the culture of peas. I love stuffed Sweet Peas. I have a whole bunch of them.

How do you stuff a pea?

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19 Oct 2018, 1:13 pm

Screw this ableist sentiment against short people

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