“Stockpiling information about other people’s behavior like cookies on a browser””Mental folders filled with scripts, permutations of outcomes” relatable af 🙃
“My ‘Difficult Character’” by Mary H.K. Choi https://www.thecut.com/article/mary-hk-choi-adult-autism-diagnosis.html (but cf. “Read the Label” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/why-were-turning-psychiatric-labels-into-identities)