How to Communicate with Autistic Adults? This is the ultimate guide.

Neurodiverging Coaching
4 min readMar 15, 2022

The idea that autistic people have poor communication skills is almost a cliché in neurodiversity circles. Sure, some autistic folks are bad communicators; that’s true among non-autistic people too. What’s behind that idea that autistics have poor communication skills? It’s that non-autistic people don’t know how to communicate with autistic adults.

I’ve talked a lot in the past about the difference in communication styles between autistics and neurotypical people. We autistics are trained from birth in…

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