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Category: social skills

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Autistic

Feeling Behind in Life as an Autistic Person

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Hassaan Mohammed

There’s a fine line between “I wish I could do that” and “I know I physically can’t, nor do I want to do that” which often gets missed, even by me. I’m trying to work things out at a pace I’m comfortable with.

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Accommodations

Learning Life Skills or Just Gaming? Why Can’t It Be Both? An Autistic perspective on TTRPGs

Posted on August 23, 2021August 10, 2022 by Shawna Spain

You know where I didn’t learn how to figure people out like that? Anywhere that was not a game. Not in previous jobs, not in books, not in school. I learned these life skills using a table top role playing game (TTRPG), purely by accident.

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ABA

Teach Social Skills As Values, Not Like Computer Programs

Posted on January 6, 2021August 8, 2022 by Finn Gardiner

Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) taught me that social skills were context-free rules I had to follow: forcing my hands to be quiet, staring back at eyeballs that bored into mine, contorting myself to make myself look less autistic at the expense of my happiness and overall well-being.

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acceptance

Social Skills: Context Matters

Posted on April 3, 2013January 31, 2023 by Tasia

So what’s going on here? Does my autistic son lack social skills or does he not? The answer is that context matters. Socializing costs a lot of tokens. When he is in a situation that is already difficult for him, he won’t have those tokens to spare.

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