I’m always surprised when it happens. 99% of the time I’m just tolerated, but every once in a while someone asks. Happened last night. I was sooooooooo happy.

  • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    God we’d be such fast friends in real life…if you could put up with my own tangents and rambling, anyway. I love having conversations that lead me to 10 tabs of Wikipedia

    • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I had a long time partner who had her own things. It was pretty normal for us to talk during and after dinner, then retreat to our own worlds. She or I would ask what the other was doing sometimes, “nothing, just reading” meant you were 10 pages deep, and chasing all the citations.

      • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Ah, you’ve just described my dream wife lol

        I’ve never been diagnosed but I’m pretty sure I’m somewhere on the spectrum…it’s a shame I can’t just put “looking for an autistic partner” on a dating profile without looking like a wacko.