The problem with being autistic in a neurodivergent world is that autism is effectively a thought teleportation system.

We are sitting at Q and having a conversation about outcomes and mid sentence I can teleport to W and look of at X and then teleport back and barely miss a word.

So I say something about X, but it’s incongruent to the person I’m talking to because they didn’t travel there. And what’s more, they CAN’T travel there. Because to get there, they have to go through R, S, T, etc. At best, they can hop over U and go from T to V.

But autistics can just teleport. Like, we don’t even talk about all that other stuff because we don’t even need to think about it, much less see it.

And this causes a problem, because we’re standing at W looking around and NT people are explaining R and S to us like we don’t know it exists and then think WE are clueless for not thinking about it.