/u/kayaut on Hmm. Wonder if this has happened to anyone here lol
edit: just realized you ARE the commenter that mentioned Asperger's, so please ignore any bits that make it sound like you aren't Autistic!!! My point being, had the person just straight out asked you, instead of expecting you to understand in the same unspoken way, life would have been much easier, imo. It takes a lot of mental energy for me to be engaged in a conversation the way Neurotypicals (in general) expect me to be. People think that ASD 1/Asperger's just means you have a social disorder, but I literally can't block out stimulus. My eyes see everything. Every movement, leaves, flowers, color, light. It can be great but also really overwhelming if I'm in a very decorated restaurant, and I'm cataloguing everything, looking for patterns, noticing every person, aware of the number of times servers went to other tables, that woman with the black hair and the plaid top just coughed...what did my friend just say? Then there's noise. The world is a con...