Positive Stuff About People on the Autistic Spectrum
1. We like to process things all the time.
2. Processing things takes a long time so give us time to do it.
3. Talk in short sentences, long sentences takes us too long to process.
4. Some of us don't like you to look in our eyes it interferes with our processing information.
5. Don't stand too close to us it interferes with our processing.
6. We need to be alone at some point of our day to process information.
7. We need to feel safe. Our different sensory and spatial issues makes our world different than the way you perceive it.
8. We need to stim -- use an activity to calm down -- such as chewing gum, running, twirling -- let us.
9. We have good long term memories, they are either visual or auditory, sometimes both. Which makes it difficult to argue with us.
10. With good memories it is better to explain everything in full. There is a need to understand everything completely. We are logical people.
11. Teach us toward our special interest.
12. Presume competence. Talk up to us not down.
1. We like to process things all the time.
2. Processing things takes a long time so give us time to do it.
3. Talk in short sentences, long sentences takes us too long to process.
4. Some of us don't like you to look in our eyes it interferes with our processing information.
5. Don't stand too close to us it interferes with our processing.
6. We need to be alone at some point of our day to process information.
7. We need to feel safe. Our different sensory and spatial issues makes our world different than the way you perceive it.
8. We need to stim -- use an activity to calm down -- such as chewing gum, running, twirling -- let us.
9. We have good long term memories, they are either visual or auditory, sometimes both. Which makes it difficult to argue with us.
10. With good memories it is better to explain everything in full. There is a need to understand everything completely. We are logical people.
11. Teach us toward our special interest.
12. Presume competence. Talk up to us not down.