That's super interesting. And don't worry, you made sense.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the difference is that I'm pretty tight-lipped about my own neurodivergence in personal conversation- I really don't tell anyone that I'm autistic unless it comes up naturally.
My sensory issues have been continuously flagged, by family members, by friends, by literally anyone else, as a "Oh, M's being weird again"- I think only one person (who was probably also autistic himself, clocked me as One Of Us) in my whole lifetime.
My mannerisms (the way I walk, speak, hold my body) when I'm not actively masking get me read as, again, r-word, so I don't know what they mean. Same thing with my math difficulties.
Everything else, no one's commented on (except, you know, therapists) because I go to great lengths to keep my other Weird Brain Stuff hidden from other people, so I don't know how they would have flagged me.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure the difference is that I'm pretty tight-lipped about my own neurodivergence in personal conversation- I really don't tell anyone that I'm autistic unless it comes up naturally.
My sensory issues have been continuously flagged, by family members, by friends, by literally anyone else, as a "Oh, M's being weird again"- I think only one person (who was probably also autistic himself, clocked me as One Of Us) in my whole lifetime.
My mannerisms (the way I walk, speak, hold my body) when I'm not actively masking get me read as, again, r-word, so I don't know what they mean. Same thing with my math difficulties.
Everything else, no one's commented on (except, you know, therapists) because I go to great lengths to keep my other Weird Brain Stuff hidden from other people, so I don't know how they would have flagged me.