What to Do When Your Child Scripts From TV Shows
Scripting from favorite shows is communication, not something to correct — what it usually means and how to respond.
Scripting from favorite shows is communication, not something to correct — what it usually means and how to respond.
The double empathy problem reframes autistic communication difficulty as a two-way mismatch, not a one-sided deficit.
Avoiding eye contact usually isn’t disinterest — for many autistic people, it’s what makes following the conversation possible.
There is no single autistic communication style — speech, AAC, and everything between are equally valid ways to be understood.
Echolalia — repeating words or phrases someone else said — is usually doing real communicative work, not producing meaningless noise.
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