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How Autistics View the Rest of Us

The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting piece that flips the autism script: We are the abnormal ones, and this is how they perceive us.  The entire article is interesting, although this paragraph personally resonated:"The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic," she says, "because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play."People are not that complicated - except you.  If I know someone's age, race, sex, and income, I can tell you she shops; what brands and styles of clothes he wears; and what kind of car he drives.  I can predict when you'll have a life crisis, and what will cause this crisis.  (Given Crime & Federalism's readership demographics, your crisis will be caused by status anxiety and jealousy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on February 22, 2010 (boomark / email).