You can tell when someone’s frame of reference for “normal people” is more “people at the church sponsored ice cream social” and less “people on the bus”
Adding an extra point to a good list:
6. Small talk can be less emotionally draining. Speaking as an autistic person, emotionally connecting with people is difficult. It may look different to a neurotypical person’s needs but I still need or am required to do human interaction and talking about what someone got up to at the weekend takes a lot less spoons than discussing politics or health problems in my family
I'm trying to figure out a good way to say "you really should actually learn the basics of small talk" with sounding like I'm biased against autistic people.
"spam like = blocked" if you spam like me i am going to cast 1000 protection spells on you so nothing bad happens to you ever
Knitting is great it's just a fidget toy and periodically you get a scarf or some shit
god I would be UNSTOPPABLE if I was capable of consistently initiating tasks. just you wait. you'll be waiting a while but just you wait
Back lurking here after twitter imploded. Avatar is Leaf Spirit by Simon Gudgeon
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