Ok so quick context here,
I really want to focus on the “explain like Im five part. ”
I’m already quite aware of what is autism.
But I have an autistic 9 yo son and I really struggle to explain the situation to him and other kids in simple understandable terms, suitable for their age, and ideally present him in a cool way that could preserve his self esteem.
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Pretend like you’re in a stage play. You know what the play is, you know what the plot is, and you know who your character is.
However, everyone else has a script, and you don’t. That’s autism.
Some people on the spectrum are good enough actors that they can make it work anyway, to the point where you might not suspect they’re on the spectrum until you’ve been around them a lot and see one of their quirks come to the surface.
Others, however, simply can’t act at all and need lots of prompting and assistance to make it through their part.
All of the top comments are like essays. That’s not ELI5. ELI5 challenge: Do it in 3 sentences or less.
Human minds are a lot like computers. Most computers run either Windows or Macintosh software. A small fraction of them though, run Linux. And there are lots of different types of Linux, they don’t all work the same way.
Some types of Linux work just as well as Windows or Macintosh for most tasks, just with a few quirks. Other types of Linux may perform certain particular tasks even better than the more common software, while more ordinary or mundane tasks might be more difficult using those systems.
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