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This is all really excellent perspective - thank you and I hope you comment more here! My only caveat is that sometimes the child actually does have a valid additional perspective of the facts that the teacher does not have. This doesn’t mean that the upshot is any different (kid may not have coping skills required for the setting) but plenty of times my kid was able to fill in more details about what actually happened when the teacher just said “he just snapped all of a  sudden!” Kids on the spectrum are usually pretty honest so they are not going to actually lie even if their perspective is partial. You may work with younger kids or less verbal kids than mine though. [/quote]

DP. Honest? Yes. Self-absorbed or self-centered and oblivious, also yes; that's what social and communication difficulties means. It means not understanding what is going on around you, and how it relates to you, and how you relate to it.

Your DC can tell you their perspective.  But don't mistake that for what actually happened.[/quote]

Is this a thread about bashing autism? Nope, you may take that elsewhere.

Kids on the spectrum are very honest and forthright about what they see/did. Being literal is almost part of the dx. You have a really weird viewpoint about what autism is or is not. My kid may not always understand what other people are thinking about him and may have a hard time expressing his feelings, but he can perceive events and tell me about them accurately. I feel like it is actually more common for NT people to misinterpret what kids on the spectrum do, because they assume, eg, that awkwardness is deliberate rudeness; stims are deliberately annoying; etc. [/quote]

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