When I was younger, I used to worry that I didn't do romantic love correctly, because it only made sense to me when it was half fictional.
I feel like this is common for autistic people, actually - the idea that our special interests and our deepest desires for other people occupy some of the same brain circuits. Finding a new special interest feels a li…
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