This explains why non-autistic people make, automatically, all possible efforts to be or appear appropriate and"normal"(since,
unlike Autists, they judge themselves in relation to others, who will condemn them if they seem"weird").
The American author Paul Collins, whose son is autistic, wrote in Not Even Wrong: Adventures in Autism(2004)
that:‘Autists are the ultimate square pegs,
and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work.
The American author Paul Collins, whose son is autistic, wrote in his 2004 book, Not Even Wrong:
Adventures in Autism that:“Autists are the ultimate square pegs,
and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work.