My relationship has gotten easier after we both figured out I was autistic and have figured out how to communicate around my sometimes baffling ways of expressing emotions.
Example from today
Me: *in kitchen with partner prepping dinner*
Him: *cracking jokes*
Me: *not reacting*
Him: are you okay?
Me: yes.
Him: *genuinely concerned* are you mad at me?
Me: no.
Him: are you okay?
Me:*baffled by his concern*
Me:*realizes* oh, no. I'm fighting with a line in a poem I'm writing. Not with you.
Him: ohhhhhh, yeah that makes sense. Okay.
Him: *happily returns to helping me prep*
















