Also, one of the reasons that I find it so upsetting to be told that social skills do exist is that I think social skills are about as legit...

Thinking of trying to post here more. So I'll just say the social skills conversation makes me CRAZY*? It's become yet another of t...

from my disability page here I feel like American pop culture is obsessed with autism. It is obsessed with two kinds of autism: very sever...

Tonight in line at the dining hall I was having a conversation with someone I kind of know. He was strikingly knowledgeable about when, in t...

An exploration of the concept of social skills, particularly (but not exclusively) as it relates to people with autism, victim-blaming, and ...

I guess this as close as I will get to an ending. I've typed up everything I can find in my notebook related to this, and written the th...

The classic example of impaired "social skills" in people with "Asperger's" is a person who constantly talks about t...

At the Onion AV Club, Nathan Rabin writes a series (which is now also a book) called My Year of Flops . Rabin watches very unsuccessful movi...

(Even when you just stay on body language. In my experience it is much more likely to get rejected for your own body language/facial express...

In case you forgot, a means being able to read people via their body language and facial expression and tone of voice, and to be able to ad...

When I think of mindfulness and modulation, I think of floortime. When someone uses floortime, they try to engage with someone who has a dis...

You learn a lot about this stuff if you are a cashier. A lot of the time, people will say unpleasant things for no reason, apparently withou...

While writing the last post, I felt required to say this. I know that when I've talked about this before I've been disrespectful t...

One time when I was making an earlier stage of this post , Fiona commented and defined social skills in the following way: I think social ...

I really love chaoticidealism's blog , but I take issue with something she said in this NPR article about her . I actually don't rea...

I also guess you could--well, I mean, I can kind of feel the shape of an argument in my head--"Just because you guys like Stephen doesn...

This summer I had a camper named Stephen of whom I was very fond. Although Stephen was not very good at explaining what he wanted or needed,...

Before I start I should say that I'm not trying to write about what autism is and outright deny that there are social issues. I have in ...

When I was in eighth grade, my history teacher mentioned an interesting piece of trivia one day during class. "There's this disorde...

I'm finishing my Social Skills Don't Exist post as my birthday present to myself, but because it's kind of a collection of inter...