Understanding 'the positives' indicative of 'a different way of thinking' can support the development of compassion which can have significant impact on well-being and mental health.
Autistic people may not all be geniuses, but they are not gremlins either. There are some incredible positives with the condition.
Rude? Blunt? Socially inept? These are negative tropes which too many people are happy to resort to when describing autistic people. Such descriptions actually turn positive characteristics on their head.
Critical thinking in search of truth and honesty are good things, however much they may discomfort those seeking to bury their heads in the social sands.
Autistic people 'may question normative behaviour.'
How do you think change for the better comes? Who leads such change? Not the complicit and the conformed.
Problems with socialisation means you can see society with the objective eyes of an outsider, an alien, an exile, an 'anthropologist from Mars' (Temple Grandin). And you don't take people by their own self-image.
Seeing things and hearing things (and not just missing things).
