"children with autism want you to know, humiliation as a tactic to make them to behave more typically does not work and will simply makes them fearful, ashamed and unwilling to trust people in the future. they may not understand metaphor and figures of speech and interpret them as a literal statement. this does not mean they are stupid, it just means they think differently than you do. they are not sad because they do not experienced the world in the way you do. their experience is all they know and they find it quite normal. what they struggle with is when people question and criticize their view of the world and say that it is defective or wrong. how would you feel like when someone told you that you were wrong for the way you experienced the world around you?"
they are not disabled but differently-abled. don't be so quick to judge. you never know when you might just find yourself walking in that person's shoes.
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