
Autism and Truth-Telling: Four Strategies for Protecting Relationships without Lying
Autism in the Adult
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The Ability to Lies Is a Social Ability
The ability to lie in a socially appropriate way is really important as a skill. Sometimes the relationship piece, the social piece, is more important than speaking something that we believe to be true. This is a difficult dilemma because for the person on the spectrum, their brain often is very attached to whether data are correct and whether something is true.
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