If non-autistic people are constantly misunderstanding autistic people maybe there should be some meeting in the middle instead of broadly declaring neurodivergent people to be the problem.

[–] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They did not in any way "declare neuro divergent people to be the problem."

If you go around your day and are constantly being misheard, it's more likely that you're mumbling than it is that every other person just has bad hearing.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Their comments are making broad statements about autistic people and putting the onus of understanding solely on them, when communication is a two way street.

“Everyone” doesn’t have trouble understanding autistic people; other autistic people are more able to socialize with autistic people than neurotypical people are. Being a minority just means the people who are able to socialize well with autistic people are outnumbered by people who can’t/don’t/won’t.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 months ago

Wow thank you for sharing. That's a great starting resource

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 months ago

I don't have a horse in this race, but this is untrue really, majority does not imply correctness, occam's razor just does not apply to hundreds of individuals with their own possibly independent complex motivations and circumstances. There are plenty of things most people are just wrong about and a select few are correct about etc.