Bjørn’s Reviews > Strong Female Character > Status Update

“One of the most hurtful aspects of crossed wires in a lifetime of dealing with allistic people is that they tend to look for and assume there’s an unspoken agenda in your behaviour. When they do that with autistic people – who are […] not great at making speedy social calculations – they read our awkward attempts at small talk as cold and manipulative; they mistake our fact-finding questions for prying.”