Just recognized that my cats and I have created a pidgin, like a micro-pidgen.

It's not that I don't have empathy for neurotypical social struggles; my empathy just isn't coupled with an NT social display.

No one cool came to your party? A pang in my heart region. You didn't get chosen for an award? My entire face is on fire with secondhand embarrassment.

Selective mutism is a garbage fire, except it's all my relationships that are smoldering out there in the heaps.

My gut is a cauldron of superanxiety at the thought of how long it's been since I've chatted with friends.

The thing that is hard to communicate is that that specific flavor of “brainrotted 4chan slug with incoherent beliefs” is also downstream of the right wing politics factories dumping glowing nuclear sludge into the river

there’s a reason nihilism has risen and it wears Rush Limbaugh’s face

GenX I'm visualizing what happens when we're elderly--- care homes will be painted black, blackout curtains, all-night disco

The physical expression of social nuance? It changes with every generation.

And I never knew? Why people mistook my expressions, saw 'rudeness' on my face.

Like, I'm old. All my masking was learned in the 70s and 80s. I'm not rude! but I remind you of your Great Aunt or something

The trouble that autism makes in my brain kitchen...

When I am not in the right mind for something, a conversation, an activity, this is literally true. I don't get to "keep the lights on" in every neighborhood in my brain at once.

Making fun of people in cults is one way cults keep people from escaping.

I drew this instead of playing Wow.

I am that fucking cat.

You know, because you read that you need to put away your cat's toys every once in a while until your cat forgets about them and they become new toys again

I am that way with clothes. I wear only these and then I'm sick of them time to put them away until they are new again

Effective camouflage of the power tool.