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Mysty
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11 Dec 2011, 7:42 pm

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If an "NT" was raised in an autistic society, would he or she be socially impaired within said autistic society?


Yes, because the norm would be autistic behaviour.


Seems to me it's more like there wouldn't be a norm. It's lot like people with autism simple have their own different way of socializing and if we get them all together, they'll have their own society with different rules. We'd have all the different variants on what autism is for different individuals, with no normal.


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11 Dec 2011, 8:10 pm

Mysty wrote:
Asp-Z wrote:
Ganondox wrote:
If an "NT" was raised in an autistic society, would he or she be socially impaired within said autistic society?


Yes, because the norm would be autistic behaviour.


Seems to me it's more like there wouldn't be a norm. It's lot like people with autism simple have their own different way of socializing and if we get them all together, they'll have their own society with different rules. We'd have all the different variants on what autism is for different individuals, with no normal.


In terms of socialising, though, we do tend to have a set of common approaches, just as NTs do, and those are what would become the norm.



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11 Dec 2011, 8:12 pm

Good question, I would imagine so ?


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12 Dec 2011, 1:19 pm

Mysty wrote:
We'd have all the different variants on what autism is for different individuals, with no normal.


In the same way, we currently have all the different variants on what 'normal' is for different individuals, with no normal.



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13 Dec 2011, 12:43 pm

pastafarian wrote:
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We'd have all the different variants on what autism is for different individuals, with no normal.


In the same way, we currently have all the different variants on what 'normal' is for different individuals, with no normal.


True. But most people have this way of adapting themselves to social norms without even thinking about it. Just being themselves without that changing to fit the social environment is something they have to work at. Unlike those on the spectrum who have to work at adapting to the social environment (if they choose to) but are good at being ourselves.


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