im so neurotypical guys. anyway ive started motivating myself to make eye contact by telling myself "just pretend you're ben linus" and it WORKS
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shout out to my fellow autistic homies who stare by accident. team "i thought i was doing eye contact correctly but neurotypical people are telling me i'm going overboard"
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reminder that not struggling with eye contact, or even having too much of it, doesn't mean you're not autistic. a lot of autistic people complain about not having a good time making eye contact, but struggling with making it isn't in the diagnostic criteria, nor is it required to have a diagnosis
some autistic people might be just fine making eye contact
some might even swing in the other extreme and make too much eye contact that makes NTs uncomfortable. the diagnostic criteria just underlines "abnormalities" in eye contact
again, though, those abnormalities aren't required, because autism is a spectrum and not a straight line
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Productivity
ENTJ: Do you know those moments when you’ve got so much to do that you have no idea where to even start and so you start making a list of things that are too unimportant to waste your time on right now? But at the same time you’re wasting time by not working on the things that actually are important. You’re just making lists of all the tiny aspects of your work that you can throw out just to make yourself feel like you’re doing something.
INFJ: No, I don’t know those moments. I’m less productive, you see. When I’m overwhelmed by all the stuff I have to do, I panic and stare at the wall for three hours.
ENTJ: You’ve been doing that a lot lately, haven’t you?
INFJ: ... yes.
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a side effect of being autistic and being forced to pretend to make eye contact by vaguely looking at people's faces at all times while interacting with them is forgetting to look at the camera when they take a picture because you're still trying to make the fake eye contact
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