You know how neurotypical people talk about how they make and hold eye contact?
It’s a lie. They do no such thing. I can do it on ADHD meds and if you don’t look away it really freaks them out.
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You know how neurotypical people talk about how they make and hold eye contact?
It’s a lie. They do no such thing. I can do it on ADHD meds and if you don’t look away it really freaks them out.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •funny, a consultant psychiatrist on the NHS told me I had very poor eye contact which indicated autism not ADHD 🤔 it's almost like they make the eye contact shite up.
(Also omg yesterday I realised it was a week since your last post and I thought the orcas got you 😱)
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •well it wasn't about indefinite eye contact.
it's about "appropriate" eye contact, which relies on look-here-points and look-away-points, based on the context.
Sarah Brown
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Because deaf or mute people famously cannot communicate or socialise?
Socialisation is more than words. For autists like us as well. It's just a sense we're missing, like sight or hearing.
It's part of why I started studying linguistics. I get to learn the academic description of how all that works, which rules and patterns nonverbal communication follows, and where exactly I am missing out on understanding it.
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Them: NOT LIKE THAT! ASFHGKLJ;DWAUGH
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