Yea, I guessed you just wanted to help. You don't, you are just full of yourself.
Alexmitter
Okay I see that this is about your non-vocal autistic son. While I speak about Asperger struggles, a completely different world.
There is quite a lot of research into that already on the Asperger side. There is something with our faces that makes normal people feel unwell and you can not turn that off. It even works with simple portrait pictures. It just scratches something in their brain.
You de-validate my struggles, and the struggles of most in the Asperger Autism community. The statistics to loneliness and worklessness, the high suicide and low lifetime expectations do not lie. Why we rank so high for depression and illness.
I think you must be of the kind that does not automatically tick off people simply by existing in their space, that makes things easier for you and things like "just have some smalltalk with them" and "if you do that and that they will like you".
There is no statistic but I would say that the vast majority of us are not of that kind.
All my current friends are either internet people from a different continent or some people I retained from that "difficult kids" school I was forced to go to. Those people are weird enough themselves that they have fun with Me and I have fun with them. Since then things did not work that well even though I tried hard.
People just generally do not want to spend time with me, when after-work activities are the current talk topic of the room, they switch topic when I enter.
Adults are the same, just different. They may not beat you daily at a place you can not escape aka school for the fun of it, but they still let you know that you are not one of them, that you are not welcome beyond what your work capabilities can provide.
relatable