NOVELISTS WRITING ABOUT GROWING UP AUTISTIC: He stared at his mother savant-ly, doing a series of complex equations on the chalkboard. Her eyes filled with tears as she realized this was how he talked, and loved MY ACTUAL CHILDHOOD: It's too hot for my coat that I never take off
NOVELISTS WRITING ABOUT GROWING UP AUTISTIC: Their grade school science project received the blue ribbon at the fair. They were focused and humble amongst the praise. MY ACTUAL CHILDHOOD: My project is shit. Why did I win? Please quiet down everyone and be still, my brain hurts!
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This has me thinking about the concept of "confidence" and how I don't think autistic people *feel* it how neurotypical people do. For NT, it's pure ego, "Can I or can't I?" For autistics, it's "Have I collected enough info and studied the processes enough to do it right?"
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My assessment of the above could be incorrect though, but: "You need more confidence, what you did there is good, you can do it!" "Well, those parts of it are okay, that part is good and those are all mistakes. It can and should be much better." So many conversations like that
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Related: Anyone else have the experience of some sort of homework assignment that everyone else understood would involve working with your parents, then getting a bad grade when you hand in work entirely done by yourself?
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