When autistic and neurotypical people talk, comprehension drops to 40%. Same-neurotype pairs hit 70-80%. The speaker questions whether emotional regulation explains the gap or if something deeper is at work.
And what they found is that in situations where it was the mix, comprehension went down significantly by like down to something like 40% or something. And the neurodivergent to neurodivergent, the neurotypical to neurotypical was like 70 to 80% of comprehension. So that just illustrates— Unbelievable. Yeah, right. It illustrates what you were talking about, but I want to go a little deeper here and say, so if If the problem isn't emotional regulation, if people see that as a problem, people see, you know, this understanding, grasping concepts, intelligence, if that's what people are pointing at as, okay, this is what's wrong, or this is the problem. Mm-hmm. What's the reality of this situation that isn't that? You know what I mean? Like, what's really going— how would you describe what's really going on to somebody? Who's not autistic to somebody, you know? All right, somebody who is autistic, somebody who's not.
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