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Very much this. I’ve spoken to a lot of parents of autistic kids and a whole bunch of symptoms commonly associated with autism are actually stress reactions and
by moomin 5y ago
Very much this. I’ve spoken to a lot of parents of autistic kids and a whole bunch of symptoms commonly associated with autism are actually stress reactions and nothing to do with autism at all.
If you found that people behaved in weird and confusing ways every day you might get withdrawn too.
- banannaise 5y agoPlus, instead of accepting autistic behaviors as quirks, we often try to psychologically beat it out of them (ABA therapy). This of course tends to make things worse rather than better, and you end up with a lot of autistic people who have two modes: pretending their best to be "normal", and complete meltdown when that fails.