‘Real friendships felt mythical to me’: On autism, reading and growing up

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Frog was trembling. “I am not afraid!” he shouted.

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This is in line with thoughts I’ve been having. Friendship is so elusive. I’m come back a little to reading about autism after getting fed up with thinking about it, and I actually think I’m so autistic. So in myself. My masking was always PITIFUL if present at all. And importantly, thank you Elsa

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Oof, damn this is real. The experience of the adults around you looking at you like some kind of misshapen garment or crooked plant, not quite sure what to do about it, not quite willing to tell you what's going on. Just a vague sense of doing it wrong and internalizing it your whole life.

"I’d started to have a sense of myself as an uneasy subject that needed to be wrapped in something palatable. I learned sarcasm and witticisms and quips, and about how to be funny when everything else failed."

I've never felt so simultaneously called out and SEEN 😳😭

This is a tremendous piece of writing. Well worth your time.

This is great. I certainly relate to experiencing hostility as a child, not just from other children but from adults. People catch on pretty quickly. I also relate to memorising things.

"I can see why plenty of autistics are drawn to doing stand-up. Somebody I know recently told me they couldn’t imagine subjecting themselves to such a humiliating game of risk, night after night. For autistic people every interaction feels this way, so perhaps for us there’s little difference."
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Brilliant writing from Elsa - as usual

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Article if you want a read (no anal to speak of but you still might like it)