doctor: why do you think you have autism? You speak aloud so well
me:
me: *is considered the "weird one" in pretty much every social group i am in*
me: *knows way too many facts about plants that grow in funny ways and foodstuffs that are mistakenly labeled as vegetable when they're actually a fruit and hey did you know that watermelon is considered the state vegetable of the state of Oklahoma?*
me: *sits for hours arbitrarily sorting my button collection in more ways than a normal person would think possible*
me: *spent about ten minutes in the bathroom earlier literally just hopping in place and flapping my hands and going 'mm!' out loud because Brain Said So*
me: *accidentally talks over my friends constantly because i get carried away infodumping and then they can't shut me up (guys im so sorry)*
me: *has about ten articles of clothing that i wear on loop because no clothing stores sell clothes that aren't Texture Suck so i can never find good clothes*
me: *eats the same meal every single day because it's the only food in the house that isn't Illegal™ this month apparently*
me: *literally dropped out of school (and physically cannot get a job) because the bright fluorescent lighting giving me migraines constantly mixed with the constant loud sounds of like a hundred students overstimming me every day mixed with the stress of being pressured to complete work i didn't understand because classrooms are built specifically for only neurotypicals mixed with the social stress of never really being able to connect with other students and being alienated for being 'weird' even though they never tell me what i did wrong mixed with the physical pain of masking all the fucking time drove me to the point of literal daily meltdowns and panic attacks and one day i decided i just wasn't going to fucking deal with this shit anymore and refused to so much as leave my room and i got in trouble for truancy before they decided to let me go as long as i went to counseling*
me: oh i dunno. just a hunch