The World is Learning What it Means to be Autistic

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Sporting events cancelled.
Bars and restaurants and nightlife closed.
Forced into being homebodies (except for work and essentials).
"Social distancing," (the epitome of having Asperger's)
The only people on the road and out doing things at night are those who actually have a purpose to serve.
Grocery stores closing early.
Shopping malls closed.
THE LIST GOES ON

They can't do what they've always done. They have to see what life is like being SOCIALLY LIMITED.

NTs are learning what it's like to live as a "high functioning" Autistic. We all know they won't be able to handle it for long, the way we've done all our lives. When does the rioting / looting begin??

I don't think the world is learning what it means to be autistic -- the current circumstances is a poor example to compare to and would never do justice.

More like the world is learning more about what it means to be more constantly anxious, isolated and forced into order to some/most extent.



Nothing inherently autistic about it. More like inherently... Introverted or and if not obsessive compulsive to some ways.

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Nah, not really. Many autistic people have lives outside their homes too, while many NTs are shut ins normally as well.

Everyone's just gotta learn what it's like to be a shut in, while the actual shut ins are gonna be all "meh" since it doesn't affect their routines anyway.

If the situation stabilises and when the time is right, I'll probably reapply for my old job picking organic veg in a team of workers mostly comprised of NTs, not something I would have considered doing until recently. That will mean having to brush up on my masking, hopefully, by then the "banter" will be more tolerable as NTs adjust to the new reality.

Not everyone with Aspergers Syndrome are asocial people.Some are,but some are not.It depends how they value being outside of home.It also depends if someone with Aspergers Syndrome can find someone who accept them for who they are.If anything,NT'S are learning how be someone who's in compete isolation and someone who never socialize.

I think one of the key differences involves the lack of sensory overload for NTs under quarantine. I mean, unless some NT gets an extreme case of cabin fever (when the ticking of a clock starts sounding like the pounding of a hammer, for example), NTs start yelling at each other for breathing too loud, and they start wrapping themselves in blankets to curl up and rock inside dark closets for hours at a time, then they might begin to have some understanding of what it means to be autistic.

But, like all of those one-day fasts that NTs go on to "understand" what it is like to endure extreme poverty (... as if...), their ordeals will end and they can go back to their nice, normal, neurotypical ways and forget all about what it is like to have (simulated) autism.

For them, this crisis is only temporary; for us, autism last a lifetime.

Where I live things seem to be calm and quiet. Might be different in a city centre mind.

If anything I think the thing that may come out of this is showing a little more respect for other people, plus people behaving a little more civilised when out and about and not being in so much of a hurry. [I know there will always be some that aren't like that].

Also if people are not working then they will be able to de-stress quite a lot, provided they have no immediate money worries.

What we will no doubt find is that the NHS will be very busy in a certain department sometime around Christmas time/early January.

I would be delighted if that was all it meant to be autistic. But I also have to deal with sensory issues (sometimes severe), executive functioning problems, and frequent shutdowns, just to name a few.

They aren't learning a single thing and I hate them all.