How to be human is a good one, I used to think of it as “making people love me.” Social interaction always felt like a piece of music I was learning on an instrument I was well suited for, but everyone else had sheet music and I had to learn by watching them play. I think a lot of people feel this way, but I don’t know many other people who see it like that, or who look up from their own music to think about arrangement, composition, etc., and make studying it to perfection the performance of their life. For a long time, I was like a dancing monkey, and I don’t think others realized it, which kept me from realizing it (because no one reflected it back to me). It was a long time before I learned to listen for and play the music that was really inside of me, but I’ve learned a LOT about myself since I started learning from other autistic people’s experiences.
Madeline Pendleton
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In 4th grade I tried to teach myself “how to be human” by replicating the tv show Friends. I did a peer survey and asked my classmates who their favorite character was. Phoebe won, so I spent the entire summer studying her and entered 5th grade AS Phoebe.
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