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Originally Posted by Omers Is there any way of KNOWING, objectively, that one's efforts to "walk in another's shoes" are correct?" is very clearly NO, I cannot. I find that I am often very harshly judged for my inability to do this. I feel however that everyone does it to a LIMITED capability... my capability is just so much more limited I stand out.

But why are you "very harshly judged"? Is it only by people who don't know you're autistic? And why the harshness? What's the "badness," the evil that they see in your inability? Do both men and women react the same way to their perceptions of your inability?

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Question: Is it ever really possible to "walk in the shoes of another?" Really? Aren't our efforts, however successful they may be, always falling short of the extent of knowledge implied (at least to me) by that phrase? To what extent, if any, do we all really live our lives in solitude?" For me the answer to the first point is a very clear, hard NO! IMO our solitude is directly correlated with how well we can express ourselves to those around us AND how well we are able to surround ourselves with people who are equally capable of receiving that information.

That's a VERY interesting prescription for how to minimize solitude: (1) maximize your powers of self-expression, and (2) surround yourself with people who can best comprehend what you say. Hmmmmmm.