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Autism Feels... Part One (What Does Autism Feel Like)

My Friend Autism

CHAPTER

The Importance of Small Talk in Autism

A lot of times we're bad at playing those roles, right? Because you've got an autistic brain trying to be a neurotypical brain. In the end, you try your best to do that to fit in, and you don't anyway, it fails. So either way, it's a lose, lose. Let's talk about small talk. Autism feels like neurotypical small talk is a foreign language. You can never learn this language, by the way. It's one of those foreign languages that's really hard. Okay, so any form of small talk doesn't come naturally to me in most autistic people. But I kind of speak two languages: autistic and neurotyp

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