The Making and Breaking of Relationships

The Making and Breaking of Relatioships

https://www.dailycal.org/2019/03/17/the-making-and-breaking-of-relationships/

I interviewed two psychology professors at UC Berkeley for my latest article in The Daily Californian.

The strategies in the article are powerful tools at our disposal, no matter the nature of the relationship (romantic, friendship, any type of association) or situation. Neurodiverse disabilities like AUTISM mean we need as big a toolkit as possible to navigate life and societal norms designed for a narrower set of the population.

I personally found a lot of irony in the "self-distancing" strategy discussed in the article. When I first started learning to communicate via typing as a teen, I used to always refer to myself in the 3rd person - I was, "the kid with autism," "the noble youth with autism." I was told every time to rephrase it in "first person" mode and use the words "I" and "Me".

At that time I grappled with the conundrum of reconciling the "We to Me."

Now I feel like I've come back a full circle, - "Me to We" was actually a good thing all along.