undertheradar
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So I have a question... I have noticed a friend of mine has an 18-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old son that exhibit a lot of autistic traits
It's especially noticeable with the son... Things like hand flapping and other things that really just remind me of my kids when they were younger not to mention myself
The 18-year-old daughter it was a little less obvious... But there's big issues with eye contact and just a general awkwardness... In fact when I came over to help with a project that he was doing, I noticed that his daughter did a lot of the same things that I did, one of the big ones that jumped out at me was that she covers all sorts of light in her bedroom... Even including things like alarm clocks and other things like that... Something that I'm very familiar with
Part of me thinks about just casually mentioning what I've been studying up on autism... And just mentioning some of the traits I've been reading about, without actually mentioning to my friend that I see a lot of these traits in these two kids
The other part of me thinks, it's really none of my business
It's especially noticeable with the son... Things like hand flapping and other things that really just remind me of my kids when they were younger not to mention myself
The 18-year-old daughter it was a little less obvious... But there's big issues with eye contact and just a general awkwardness... In fact when I came over to help with a project that he was doing, I noticed that his daughter did a lot of the same things that I did, one of the big ones that jumped out at me was that she covers all sorts of light in her bedroom... Even including things like alarm clocks and other things like that... Something that I'm very familiar with
Part of me thinks about just casually mentioning what I've been studying up on autism... And just mentioning some of the traits I've been reading about, without actually mentioning to my friend that I see a lot of these traits in these two kids
The other part of me thinks, it's really none of my business