https://www.thedailyisotope.com/2024/10/24/autistic-enby-fails-job-interview-for-making-too-much-and-too-little-eye-contact/ A satirical news site! Sun, 27 Oct 2024 04:54:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://social.vivaldi.net/@jeanoappleseed/113377598501269020 Sun, 27 Oct 2024 04:54:22 +0000 https://www.thedailyisotope.com/?p=111#comment-7 And this was an experiment I did well into adulthood.]]> @yourautisticlife I started looking at people’s nose and mouths or somewhere in between as a kid to avoid being told I was lying when I wasn’t. My preference would be to even only look at their noses or mouths from time to time. All of this I find nerve wrecking and it affects my concentration. It’s one reason why I tend to prefer not being around humans too much. My dogs and I do make eye contacts but I don’t judge them or get judged by them whether I do or not or because I don’t do it often enough or too much. With my dogs it feels like a natural form of connection. I don’t even like looking at people’s eyes on zoom or on pictures though it’s easier on pictures than in real life. I used to think I was supposed to make eye contact, period. Continuously. I hate to have been the people I interacted with when I was practicing that form of eye contact. Can you imagine?! Needless to say that I quickly abandoned those efforts and glad I did because I may have turned a lot of people off or gotten beat up. How was I supposed to know that it’s not continuous?! 😆 And this was an experiment I did well into adulthood.

]]> https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/@yourautisticlife/113362376042020746 Thu, 24 Oct 2024 12:23:03 +0000 https://www.thedailyisotope.com/?p=111#comment-5 @hosford42 The story above is inspired from your own difficulties, and my own fears. :holdthepain:

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