I’m autistic, in my third year of uni yet i find people know so little about it. People who know i’m autistic don’t believe that i’m on a full degree course, theres still so much of a misconception that autism is about intellect. Austism has nothing to do with intellect, only the social side of things. If this weren’t such a people orientated society i’d do fine.
There are even university lectureers whose advice for people with autism worried about being graded on a social aspect of a course e.g. speaking in front of the class about a subject is to ‘just get on with it’
I can cope with that, its just the fact that when i ask if i am to be graded on my social skills in conveying the information (eye contact and tone of voice are harder to learn than you think) the answer always seems to be to asure that the intellectual side won’t matter as much as i am in a group. Which is not what i asked in the first place.
It would be nice for people to at least understand that this is not an intellectual disability.
