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reaaaaallly good post on the what it is like for high functioning autism https://medium/p/196e61ce3a45 I write out notes for important phone calls. I write out notes for important conversations. I practice facial expressions in the mirror. I practice inflection in the shower. I have never not done these things. For a very long time, I assumed everyone did them. I tell all of this to my therapist, and I also tell him that I’ve realized over the last few months that the experience I’ve always characterized as empathy is not, in fact, the same thing most of the people around me mean when they say “empathy.” Mine is more like very, very well-honed pattern recognition. I am a good listener. I give very good advice. I am very good at noticing and articulating patterns and motivations people don’t recognize in themselves. I identify with very few of them. Hells yea.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 02:18:13 +0000

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