Training, reskilling or just plain getting to know you better means gradually being allowed through the sensory point of entry within their mind. Basically what this means is that they trust you enough to know that you will not harm them. No matter what the Autistic persons ages, experience, class, skills or level of social integration, they have such a deep understanding of what you are going to experience that they will withdraw rather than hurt you, or let you hurt yourself.
To have empathy may, or may not need the requirement of stopping what you are doing, releasing yourself from your schedule, then fully tuning into what the other person is trying to say. The realisation that you see the world through their eyes may become very scary. A roller coaster ride
that brings you to a point where there is only the choice to go further or to received. Rather like learning a second language. One day waking from a dream and realising you understood every word. Ever single nuance. Which is good right? The scary part is that it is in the second language that you understood everything.
Have you been absorbed? Or have you allowed yourself to become one with that other person?
This is what the 'normal' people expect those on the autistic spectrum to do. Every day of their life.
So at an early age the people with autistic tendencies learn to adapt their thinking. To hide the fact that they play with energy. Universal God given energy. Some cultures call this energy Prana.
Scientists know that these energy levels are there. The auras, the feelings of a presence in the room, these are somewhere on the radar as usual everyday things to experience.
People are interceptive of the message - believing what they will
In the western world, many people can you as an undesirable. Ward off the evil that they perceive. So undercover the autistics would go.
Magicians called the females to be identified as witches. They became locked in as a sacrifice during the dark ages of the western cultures. Meanwhile, the Magicians perfected their gifts into skills that became known as tricks. Illusions of the mind. Jesters told jokes the Kings and Queens could not define.
The men took on the role cooks became Chiefs. Why was it that to congratulate someone they had to have a standing similar to yours?
It's one thing to get through the sensory point of entry
Just the fact that each day is a war on the sensory level that people on the Autism spectrum need to get through. Every second, every breath, every touch of the clothing they wear. The scent of the person next doors hair, the washing powder someone wash someone's clothes in four desks to the front and two to the side. Look those sensory overload trip switches keep on the college. Or maybe there is a silent reflux happening from the meal last night or breakfasts fast food where they altered the cheese type without telling you.
Now when someone you do not know takes the time to find out how your mind works. Firstly there must be incredible trust factors involved. Then an opening up a piece at a time. Or those poor people will have a meltdown of all time. So be careful who you let in. As they find, there escape route they will need to be let go of.
Should they venture back, the loop may start all over again. Let them make the move. One step at a time.
However congratulate them. They really are very brave to have even attempted the effort of getting through the sensory point of entry.
