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Disclaimer: My short story here shouldn't be considered meme material.
I am not certified in handling autistic children, but apparently I can understand what non-verbal autistic children are trying to communicate, even moreso than their own parents.
My friend's daughter was non-verbal, and she would often do repetitive actions. Well one day, I rode my bicycle to visit my mechanic friend. Then, other friends showed up, with their non-verbal autistic daughter, probably around age 8.
Anyways, the young girl started repetitively running around in the yard, running up towards me, patting my bicycle seat, and then running towards the road. Now think, what's that supposed to mean?
Well after the third round of her running towards the road, her parents were about to whoop her ass ☹️
I had to tell the young girl's parents to basically fuck off, she wasn't doing anything wrong at all. She just wanted to see me perform some bicycle tricks..
It was both a happy and sad moment of my life, to explain to the girl's parents that she wasn't misbehaving at all, she was simply trying to ask me to do some bike tricks.
Of course I did some bike tricks for her, after getting her parents to chill out. No reason to abuse a nonverbal, just try to understand them, and they'll be the happiest person ever!
Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk
It really goes beyond autism too. Babies might not like how they're being held. Cats might have somewhere they like to be scritched more. Dogs might want to go somewhere they can run
The ability to put yourself in someone else's situation to contextualize body language is a shockingly rare skill
This is a rare skill? I thought this was more or less normal across all people. Damn, maybe I'm the naïve person here.. 🤔
Your last statement really has me thinking right now, like does anyone else even understand empathy, love and care, even across disabilities and even species anymore?
kids with verbal issues can oftentimes learn sign language, fwtw
Darn, for me, sign language is about impossible for my own mind to learn, I'm hard pressed to even remember to look people in the eyes..
Yeah I'm probably partly autistic as well, just in a different way.