Dear John, This statement is just wrong – absence of empathy is a characteristic of psychopaths and/or narcissists, not autistic
Month: September 2023
Dear John, This has been said far too many times to children to encourage them to aim high. It’s obviously
Dear John, This lie comes from two different directions. One of them is the “autism deniers” who don’t think there’s
Dear John, When “normal” people communicate with each other, there are loads of different data streams going on. When a
Dear John, When you were 8 or so, someone at school who was well-meaning but incompetent told you that looking
Dear John, Now I know how you’d respond to this statement. You’d either reject it outright as clearly nonsense,
Dear John, Now I know that you don’t like being told that you’re bad at stuff, so it’s important to
Dear John, You’ve already noticed that you aren’t “normal”, or “neurotypical” as we’d say now. You usually try to describe
Dear John, As you may have noticed, all these letters are titled with what we might describe as “interesting lies”.
Dear John, Hi there! I suppose I’d better introduce myself. I’m you, or rather I’m who you will be in