Mastodawn

Can we put "how much time do you spend worrying if you are being misunderstood?" on the list of autism diagnostic questions?

Being misunderstood is my greatest fear in life, & I'm pretty sure autistic trauma is why.

"How often do you feel like you need to clarify things you say with very specific language?"

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bovaz

@artemis it's been recently pointed out to me that it's cute when I say "I'm not sure I can properly explain this in [current language we are speaking]", so of course I had to explain that the intention was not being cute, but rather avoiding misunderstandings.
Because too often people either think I'm joking when I'm completely serious, or understand the exact opposite of what I'm saying because of some quirky colloquialism that can be applied to some words I use.