When I hear “I don’t see people in terms of race”, I translate it into “I am willfully ignorant of the ethnic dynamics (including power dynamics) around me”.
Stated without any qualifiers, this seems to be the type of reaction that leads people to treat the autistic, naive, or otherwise socially impaired as malicious, and then possibly to punish them for something they don’t understand, which may bewilder them and further impair their social development. I hope you successfully avoid doing this.
Autists are not willfully ignorant. Most autists are aware that there are social dynamics that they don’t understand and won’t say things like “I don’t see people in terms of race”.
Stated without any qualifiers, this seems to be the type of reaction that leads people to treat the autistic, naive, or otherwise socially impaired as malicious, and then possibly to punish them for something they don’t understand, which may bewilder them and further impair their social development. I hope you successfully avoid doing this.
Autists are not willfully ignorant. Most autists are aware that there are social dynamics that they don’t understand and won’t say things like “I don’t see people in terms of race”.