Coaching practices for How Do You Tell a Facebook Friend That They Might Be on the Autism Spectrum

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• I’m convinced everyone notices when I’m anxious and is quietly judging me for it
• I’m about to meet someone important for the first time and I have no read on them yet
• Loud rooms, certain textures, bright light have always set me on edge, and I think the sessions might be shifting that
• They tell me what kind of parent or partner they want to be, and it’s miles from how they’re actually living
• Whenever I ask people how I’m doing I just get vague, polite reassurance

Practices that may help

1. Survey Experiments: Testing Beliefs by Asking Others
   Test social predictions by asking a small sample of others what they actually think — instead of assuming.
   Behavioral Experiments: Testing Beliefs in the Real World
2. Read assertiveness and responsiveness quickly
   Observe whether someone talks more than they listen (assertiveness) and whether they show emotion openly (responsiveness).
   Social Style Matrix: Adapting to How People Communicate
3. Track and communicate sensory sensitivity changes during SSP
   Monitoring sensory reactivity across sessions gives the clinician the data to pace the protocol safely.
   The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP): What It Is and What the Evidence Shows
4. Develop discrepancy between values and behavior
   Gently hold up the gap between what the person wants and what they’re doing.
   Motivational Interviewing, Made Practical
5. Actively seek feedback on your blind spots
   Ask specifically for what others see that you might not — with enough specificity to get honest answers.
   The Johari Window
6. Give yourself advice as if advising a close friend
   Describe your problem as if a close friend brought it to you — then write the advice you would give them.
   Self-Distancing Journaling
7. Recall how little you notice others
   Inventory how often you notice strangers’ flaws — then apply that rate to yourself.
   The Spotlight Effect: Why You Think Everyone Is Watching
8. Use self-disclosure to invite similarity discovery
   Sharing something true about yourself gives the other person a target to match.
   The Similarity-Attraction Effect (Donn Byrne)
9. Use genuine facial expressions and body language — not managed ones
   Let your face and body reflect what you are actually experiencing so others can read and respond to you.
   Radical Openness: The RO-DBT Approach to Overcontrol and Loneliness
10. Build and use social safety signals
    Establish cues in your relationships that communicate "you are safe here" — reducing anticipatory social stress.
    Tend-and-Befriend, Made Practical

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