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Neurodivergent 1d
Is it weird that I only wanna date people with autism because I have ADHD? I know they’re not the same thing, but I’ve felt that I’ve always clicked so much better with people with autism. I had tons of autistic friends growing up- (more in comments)
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Anonymous 1d

And I almost never truly click with neurotypical people for a lot of reasons. But my number one reason is kinda funny lol.

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Anonymous 15h

I don’t think it’s weird. I’m autistic + ADD and would rather be with someone who is also autistic and/or AD(H)D because then they might be able to understand me a bit better than a neurotypical person might

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Anonymous 4h

Is an autistic women I only ever date neurodivergent people so i completely understand you.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

So I have (and have ALWAYS had) the WORST resting bitch voice and resting bitch face. Plus I’m a plus sized black person, so that makes people afraid of me, or threatened by me. Either that or they would make fun of me. So growing up, no one wanted to be my friend, except autistic kids, because a lot of them weren’t thrown off by my RBF.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

So they’d come up to me and start yapping about some shi, and I would just yap back, and that’s how most of my friends were made.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

So, I think growing up that made me associate connection with traits of autism? I’ve grown up learning how they are, and a lot of their personalities or lifestyle choices not only made sense, but were kind of relatable. The best part was they also understood sometimes that I had ADHD, so when I got distracted during their conversations, their immediate thought wasn’t “Oh, he’s not interested in this conversation or me, he’s an asshole.” But it was “Oh yeah, he has ADHD.”

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

My ADHD is BAAAAD. So bad the doctors had me tested FOR autism because my ADHD kinda made me not look at or pay attention to their social cues. They also thought I had impaired hearing, but it was actually just TERRIBLE selective hearing.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

Basically, I don’t get annoyed with things neurotypical people would get annoyed for in autistic traits, and people with autism don’t get annoyed with things neurotypical people would get annoyed for in ADHD traits. Does that make sense?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1d

Holy moly, I am WAAAAYYYYY too stoned rn to be making posts like this. 😵‍💫

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