The aspect of autism no one outside of our world understands is friends and where we feel our hearts are filled with longing. What is a friend?
Historically, people who had autism would lack sources to provide opportunities. People didn’t dare open up to us. We lack our skills and communication to bridge the great wide-open space between our wish you were our friends and our autism boldly getting in the way.
Recent media attention and schools that promote autism awareness helped us be better understood. We lean on service providers who often are our longest good friends.
In our reality, friends can be older, younger, in any group or gender. Our only requirements are respect, slow easy circles of conversation and good, kind energy.
What too often prevent a social life are issues outside our longing to fit into your world. If we are surrounded with light, good love, you can better predict success.
Our end goal is to be near those people life put us with who treat us like we belong. Persons who boss or reprimand are not friends.
We may need some help nailing those foiling social rules. Having our time broken into smaller bites is valued highly. However, we can be looking from the sidelines; yet, greatly expanded energy reaches us to make us live wishing to join that healing friendship slice of life again.
