> This was a revelation to me. All this time, I assumed that the primary purpose of lunch was lunch.
and
> being an introvert made conversation awkward and laborious for me.
and
> And this, too, was a bit of a revelation to me, that someone would not want to get straight to the point, that someone would need a nice long conversational warmup before they’d feel comfortable enough to be ready to talk about something more uncomfortable.
and
> I never fully understood this before. I feel like everyone else understands it, though, because they act as if they do. But if they do, it must be an intuitive understanding, a grokking, not an explicit fact that people state out loud.
...are all common experiences of people with forms of Autism.
and
> being an introvert made conversation awkward and laborious for me.
and
> And this, too, was a bit of a revelation to me, that someone would not want to get straight to the point, that someone would need a nice long conversational warmup before they’d feel comfortable enough to be ready to talk about something more uncomfortable.
and
> I never fully understood this before. I feel like everyone else understands it, though, because they act as if they do. But if they do, it must be an intuitive understanding, a grokking, not an explicit fact that people state out loud.
...are all common experiences of people with forms of Autism.