2024-08-26 13:00
Perhaps the most autistic thing about me is that I thought I could solve the problem of friends with a really complex social quota system that approximated reciprocal relationships.
After being diagnosed I permitted myself to drop all of the extensive efforts I’d made to maintain that complicated system, following special interests, energy, and effort.
Now I have fewer friends, but the friends I do have are genuine. Because we have shared interests we never run out of things to talk about.