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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-11-15 03:33 pm

[ SECRET POST #2874 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2874 ⌋

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[personal profile] annethecatdetective 2014-11-16 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Uhh, just because social graces are not things that come naturally to us does not mean that Autistic people can't be charming. It is often exhausting, but perfectly possible-- plenty of autistic people become actors, because they find it easier to put on personas and to speak to crowds than it is to be themselves and speak to strangers one on one. Some also DON'T find crowds of strangers off-putting-- famed party crasher Bill Murray recently came out as being autistic. Many experts think that Peter Sellers was autistic as well.

And I know people have covered the family thing, but my own two cents-- My father was autistic. Not only did my mother love him deeply, but so did my siblings and I. There's no one in the world I love more than my (late) dad, who was funny, and who cared deeply about people.

Learning to be social takes time and effort for those of us on the autism spectrum, but it's totally possible.

I don't know about headcanoning non-humans as autistic, that's kind of weird to me, but presumably an autistic elf would have hundreds of years in which to learn how to be charismatic.