Ah, thank you for explaining and clarifying your use of development, I'm not familiar with Erikson's theory and the others so I'll have to look into them more.
No yeah autism definitely has its downsides, I'm not denying that, my weak points have/had a large impact on my day to day life. I mean certain traits we have may be confused with or taken as signs of intellectual inferiority or immaturity/underdevelopment when they're not really related and it can lead to a lot of misconceptions and bias.
I know what you mean, in high school I called it anxiety whenever I talked to people and felt immensely uncomfortable, and I could see the judgement from others which made it worse.
But now I look at that feeling as an insecurity, and I try to figure why I feel that way, how it might have developed that way, how should I handle it, etc.
I still see judgment and stuff from others when I'm being quirky, but I'm able to look at that more as a deficit on their end than mine.
How would you feel about someone not making eye contact?
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Ah, thank you for explaining and clarifying your use of development, I'm not familiar with Erikson's theory and the others so I'll have to look into them more.
No yeah autism definitely has its downsides, I'm not denying that, my weak points have/had a large impact on my day to day life. I mean certain traits we have may be confused with or taken as signs of intellectual inferiority or immaturity/underdevelopment when they're not really related and it can lead to a lot of misconceptions and bias.
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I know what you mean, in high school I called it anxiety whenever I talked to people and felt immensely uncomfortable, and I could see the judgement from others which made it worse.
But now I look at that feeling as an insecurity, and I try to figure why I feel that way, how it might have developed that way, how should I handle it, etc.
I still see judgment and stuff from others when I'm being quirky, but I'm able to look at that more as a deficit on their end than mine.