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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What does it mean that a neurodiverse student will not do well in an interview? My kid was asked to discuss a book she read recently. That doesn’t seem like a nefarious question to me. If a kid doesn’t like to read, the school might not be a good place for them.[/quote]

I’m going to assume you are asking this in good faith. Kids on the spectrum present themselves in a distinctive, non-typical way that can invite rejection regardless of their academic ability. Of course many kids w autism read - likely read more than many NT kids. That’s not what this is about. [/quote]

Can you please be more specific? What exactly what a kid on the autism spectrum say or do that would be about a book they read that would “invite rejection”? [/quote]

Have you ever met a kid on the spectrum? They may reply very bluntly (“I don’t like reading”) or may naively report their most recent scifi book instead of something more impressive. Or they may have a very different take on a book. But the point isn’t really what they would say, it’s that they have visbly apparent social communication “deficits.” They may also stim or have odd intonation. [/quote]

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