Curate, connect, and discover
The way my autism presents means that the way I’ve learned to socialize is via fiction as a kid I would frequently repeat lines of dialogue I either read or heard in a show in response to situations that matched the scene I was referencing. This works fine and dandy and as someone whose older now I use far less refrences as I’ve learned how to do my own thing. That said every single fuckin time I’m in a situation where I hear something unfortunate ranging from I stubbed my toe to my loved one died my instinct is to say
“that’s rough buddy”
I have at this point learned to only use such default responses for light tension situations, because as a child I eventually realized my quotes didn’t always land and I’d have to learn to socialize more independently.
Have a good day/night to the unfortunate soul that read through this ramble.
there are two sides of neurodivergency: socially awkward and awkwardly social.