need things to be spelled out and made explicit. With that, we can function as well as anyone. Without that we suffer when we get advice like "be yourself", "read Dale Carnegie", etc.
Ty was lucky to have parents that understood that he needed this and made sure he got it. I didn't. Often it would take me a while to get what came naturally to the other kids and adults never seemed to recognize that, which made me feel really lonely.
Ty Tashiro writes about how "awkward" people
https://www.ted.com/talks/ty_tashiro_why_we_re_socially_awkw...
need things to be spelled out and made explicit. With that, we can function as well as anyone. Without that we suffer when we get advice like "be yourself", "read Dale Carnegie", etc.
Ty was lucky to have parents that understood that he needed this and made sure he got it. I didn't. Often it would take me a while to get what came naturally to the other kids and adults never seemed to recognize that, which made me feel really lonely.