When you're feeling vaguely curious and somewhat bored and sliiiiiightly masochistic (this is mild trauma from YEARS ago, so really it was just morbid curiosity), so you look up some of your old "co stars" from your community musical theatre era…

And the Golden Barbie Girl is now an ABA "behavior technician." Suddenly her condescending attitude towards me makes a lot more sense all these years later. If that was her mindset / approach to autism all along (even though I hadn't even suspected it in myself yet)…

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