JUST SPEAK PLAINLY.

It's easier to remember and you look like less of a twat.

"Autodidact"

*ruffles hair* SOMEONE learned a new word today.

On the subject of brains working differently: Assuming all autistic people like/want/need/aren't autistic without requiring dark mode on devices is fucking stupid. I have astigmatism. Dark mode causes eye strain and gives me raging headaches.

So, yanow, maybe don't say that.

Reading more about autistic behavior and yup, kids, it me.

Even now I will do small movements repeatedly like shaking my foot/leg or bouncing my knee, aka, FIDGETING, so my teachers in school called it. AKA, stimming, as it is now apparently called. I learned how to minimize the movements so it didn't affect anyone but me over time, but particularly in school where I would get yelled at for it.

Also: Toe walking. I did this until I was, I dunno, like 13? I still do it sometimes.

Had no idea these were autistic traits.

All I heard was "Jenny quit fidgeting. Jenny be still. Jenny walk right. What's wrong with you?"