Why are people with Asperger's berated for misinterpreting social situations?
Doesn't anyone find it a little ironic how people with Asperger's are berated by their "neurotypical" counterparts for missing social cues and misinterpreting people's intentions, but yet a lot of the time, neurotypicals misinterpret what others say and the meanings behind what they say just as much? For example, a person with Asperger's might point out a zit on someone's face without meaning to be y or insulting, but their behaviour is pathologized and treated as something terrible whilst the neurotypical person would be pretty given a free pass on the matter. Or if not, then at least, why aren't they the ones who become avoided and ostracized? If a neurotypical is meant to be good at reading other people because their brains are wired "normally" then why do they so easily misinterpret what an Asperger's person says when that person really had no intention of being rude or disrespectful? Doesn't that defeat the whole point of the gap between "normally-wired" people and people on the spectrum? Or am I just reading into this too much?