Autistic children do not lack social skills. They have different ones.
When an Autistic child plays alone, someone usually writes it down as a concern. The same child, absorbed and happy, alone by choice, looking for something specific in a toy no one else noticed. That is not a deficit.
When an Autistic child plays alone, someone usually writes it down as a concern. The same child, absorbed and happy, alone by choice, looking for something specific in a toy no one else noticed. That is not a deficit. That is a child doing what children do, which is exploring the world in the way that works for their brain.
The error in the observation is not the child. It is the observer’s expectation. The expectation that a happy child must look like a non Autistic happy child. That connection must look like eye contact. That communication must look like small talk. That friendship must look a particular way.
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