When we’re talking about higher-level expectations in school, which in high school would be debate, compare and contrast, and those kind of higher-level arguments where you have to take multiple perspectives, that makes expository language much more difficult for children with autism.
In the beginning, expository language may be their strength because there’s a paragraph about China — where China is, how many people are in China, what they like to eat, and all those facts very easy for them. Getting the big global part may not. Main topic may be difficult, so you could say, “Oh, what’s the main topic?”
And they might say, “Star Wars,” because that’s what they’d like to talk about. But as we go along, expositories get harder and harder and harder because we expect to know that this person thinks China is a player in the world’s — in the world financial markets, and this person says “Absolutely not, we don’t need China, we should pull up the United States a little bit more.” same topic, but people — this person with this mind thinks this way, and this person with another mind thinks another way, is very difficult. They’re trying to accept people that have two different minds in battling opinions, and that’s sometimes very difficult for them.
