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It is pretty interesting, if reading other people and changing your behavior to fit them is such a basic skill for people without autism, that people need to even be told about floortime or related methods at all (and that an abnormal person like me finds it really intuitive, at least in its purest forms).
I do think reading Greenspan has been helpful for me because it gives specific examples of how to apply this philosophy, but when I hear people acting as if floortime (and its less awesome and inexplicably expensive counterpart, Son-Rise) is some kind of complicated scientific theory, I wonder how those people normally treat other people in their regular lives.
I mean seriously, it actually makes me concerned that people think there is something weird or groundbreaking about such a basic way of relating to other people.
This stuff doesn’t always have some amazing effect (it definitely doesn’t ‘cure’ anything like Son-Rise claims, which is why Son-Rise is so dumb) but I have had lots of nice interactions/connections with nonverbal people who, if I was stupid enough to go up to them and ask “Hi, how are you?” and expect eye contact and a handshake, would probably strike me as not being interested in people.
Autism: Explorations 