Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this letter to the editor is to further elucidate the arguments Keates (2022) and Beechey (2022) stated in their commentaries. Both Bambara (2022) and Camarata (2022) pose comments which require clarifying the original arguments, in particular regarding power and autistic sociality, which we feel will provide further clarity to this highly significant and growing topic within autism research.
Conclusion: We recommend not teaching autistic people, but rather non-autistic individuals about autistic sociality, in order to lower the burden on autistic interlocutors in cross-neurotype interactions and socialisation (as per previous literature, Bottema-Beutel et al., 2018). We provide recommendations to address difficulties in cross-neurotype interactions; for example, bridging the neurotype gap through practices or psychosocial interventions for acceptance of
autistic people and their system of interpretation, as per Jones et al., 2021).