Strategy: Mirror imaging (continued)

• “If the little woman isn’t already a speck on the horizon, you can bet she now has gushing jet vapour coming out of her sensible shoes. When I was younger I found this kind of reaction massively amusing, but as an adult I am irritated both with myself and with the non autistic world, for I can’t see why other people cannot understand that people with autism need the other partner in an interaction to do what my mother describes as “socialise for two.”

• Lucy Blackman, Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone, p. 152