• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    “I’m actually really strange”

    “You don’t seem strange”

    “Well I am, and I’m asking for your understanding with this”

    “What is there to understand? You seem like a normal guy to me!”

    “This is our first day meeting one another”

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      9 months ago

      “Your son doesn’t look autistic.”

      “My apologies. Luke! Do an autism for the lady, please.”

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        [struggling with the inauthenticity of being authentically autistic which equals shutting down my NT mask which means writing new code to turn off the NT mask which I never do so what I’m doing is two layers of fakeness not zero]

        “I am autistic”

        “Well you seem perfectly normal to me, young man”