This is a great research for #actuallyautistic @neurodiversity
"Social cognition in autism and ADHD" Sven Bölte
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106022
"Social cognition alterations alone ultimately explain relatively little of the social functioning of autistic people and those with ADHD. An important environmental aspect for social interaction is stigma, which play in when autistic individuals, those with ADHD and neurotypical people interact, and disclosure of diagnosis either exacerbates, ameliorates, or does not affect stigma.
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There is also evidence for the bidirectionality of social cognition difficulties, i.e. that not only people with ADHD and autistic individuals experience challenges understanding others, but also that neurotypicals have problems reading neurodivergent people. [...] the theory [of the DEP] highlights a lack of mutual understanding, causing social interaction difficulties between autistic and non-autistic people. Despite this, the assumption that alterations in social cognition as being a hallmark of autism is rather universal, where understandings of social challenges as a deficit with the individual remains dominant, and it is experienced by many autistic people as ignorant, dehumanizing and harmful.
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This review suggests several ways to either improve the quality of social cognition research or move the field of social cognition research in autism and ADHD forward, respectively: (i) a more systematic inclusion of age, sex, IQ, culture, and other variables in analyses, (ii) a better and more standardized definition and delineation of social cognition constructs and tests, (iii) the inclusion of the different facets of social cognition in research (implicit/explicit, cognitive/affective, hyper-/hyposocial) as default, (iv) systematic investigation of the role of executive functioning in social cognition performance, and finally (v) increased focus on understanding the role of the environment in social cognition through the lenses of a constructivist approach, including both bidirectionality and sensory setting."
"Social cognition in autism and ADHD" Sven Bölte
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106022
"Social cognition alterations alone ultimately explain relatively little of the social functioning of autistic people and those with ADHD. An important environmental aspect for social interaction is stigma, which play in when autistic individuals, those with ADHD and neurotypical people interact, and disclosure of diagnosis either exacerbates, ameliorates, or does not affect stigma.
[...]
There is also evidence for the bidirectionality of social cognition difficulties, i.e. that not only people with ADHD and autistic individuals experience challenges understanding others, but also that neurotypicals have problems reading neurodivergent people. [...] the theory [of the DEP] highlights a lack of mutual understanding, causing social interaction difficulties between autistic and non-autistic people. Despite this, the assumption that alterations in social cognition as being a hallmark of autism is rather universal, where understandings of social challenges as a deficit with the individual remains dominant, and it is experienced by many autistic people as ignorant, dehumanizing and harmful.
[...]
This review suggests several ways to either improve the quality of social cognition research or move the field of social cognition research in autism and ADHD forward, respectively: (i) a more systematic inclusion of age, sex, IQ, culture, and other variables in analyses, (ii) a better and more standardized definition and delineation of social cognition constructs and tests, (iii) the inclusion of the different facets of social cognition in research (implicit/explicit, cognitive/affective, hyper-/hyposocial) as default, (iv) systematic investigation of the role of executive functioning in social cognition performance, and finally (v) increased focus on understanding the role of the environment in social cognition through the lenses of a constructivist approach, including both bidirectionality and sensory setting."
Green Roc Thoughts •
Parent: "Hey [Green], do you want a candy bar? Tell me which one? DONT POINT! (slaps my hand). Use your words"
I struggled to get my mouth to work.
Green Roc Thoughts •
Quite often across my life, the general public assumes things were said that I/they never said. Several people made clear they insist on "Reading between the lines" (me and them) when I read nothing. I witness and suffer from them "reading" things I never said.
DEP indeed.
PatternChaser •
I think they 'read between the lines', and found stuff there, just like finding faces in clouds. That you *didn't* put those things there makes no difference to them. 😐
NTs communicate by implication, reading between the lines, deception, misdirection, and other examples of plain dishonesty. It's how they do it, and they can't understand why or how it could be done differently.
And they say *WE'RE* the disabled ones! 🤣
#AuDHD
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