@autismsupsoc you know the adage "the way an introvert joins a friend group is an extrovert adopts them?"

I'd like to add to that "or a neighbor who regularly takes their cat for walks moves in, in which case the cat adopts both of them"

@autismsupsoc Sympathetic animism while coding

Me in 2016: Changing the wording of my documentation if the last line of a comment has only one word so it's not lonely

Me now: "Actually, maybe that word just needs some alone time to recharge"

Me in the future: Adds food emojis so that word has its samefoods on that line of documentation

@autismsupsoc if you've ever given a $7 tip to your Uber driver after a 7.77 mile run because you made one comment about the treeline along the Charles River and then he infodumped the entire ride about the trees as a stroke of urban planning brilliance (blocking noise, wind, and erosion), you @MightBeAutistic

(Not sure if he's ND too or just really knows urban planning, but that made my morning)

@autismsupsoc "What proof do you have that autism and ADHD are everywhere?"

"Sidequest friend" is a slang term in the EDM community (it's the friend who disappears from the friend group and then rejoins after turning several other people at the show into friends)

Just released this post about how my AuDHD traits helped me get good at #devrel / build my devrel style!

https://dev.to/andyhaskell/how-audhd-traits-have-helped-me-get-good-at-devrel-1ml7 #AutismAcceptanceMonth #neurodiversity