Tell us that you discovered you were autistic as an adult without directly telling us that. Imply it by sharing personal experiences.

  • crunchycircuit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’d always had a difficult time socializing / making small talk, so around my early 20s, for several weeks, I would stay after church service so I could listen to people make small talk and pay attention to the way word selection would seed / branch into the next topic of discussion. I then attempted to apply this to my own *thought processes when conversing.

    I thought this was probably how everyone else had learned to converse in a natural manner.

    *corrected a word