I primarily ask this, because for a large part of my life, I have found it hard to build meaningful friendships with neurotypicals. I don’t know any autistic people in real life, but wonder if it would be easier for me to build friendships with them?

Or maybe this has more to do with general struggles of being autistic, rather than how alike I am to others. However, I always find neurotypicals don’t really go deep in conversation, but they enjoy small talk. Yet, I’m the complete opposite.

What has been your experience?

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    1 year ago

    Oh, it’s inordinately easier to communicate with neurodivergent folk in my experience, at least. Spend a month around divergents, and one day with a neurotypical has me there like glaring daggers at the typical after they thoughtlessly ran their mouth like "god are you fuckin housebroken, at all?" I never feel talked to around nts, just talked at; and I fuckin hate that.