I was wondering recently whether speaking the truth will be solution for our communication difficulties. It was meant to relieve us from the troubles of constant masking and repeating things we heard other people say. Also, I was hoping it will make people respect us and hopefully will prevent them from expecting us to chat with them.

I didn’t have a chance to try that out yet and I have no idea what neurotypical person would think about this but it made sense to me at first.

What came to my mind later, however, is that by speaking the truth we would reveal how bad we can misinterpret what is happening around us.

I remember I was probably 34 when I realised that finally I get situations at work the same way other people do. Before that I used to perceive them differently. For example if I had a bossy manager who ignored employees’ individual circumstances I was convinced he was professional and was only trying to get people to do their job. If I said that to my colleagues at the time I’d be even more likely to get rejected by them.

So should we tell the truth, how we see it, or is it better to keep quiet forever about everything, just in case?