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Autistic relationships. Love on our own terms.

Autistic relationships do not look like what the magazines describe. The magazines are describing non Autistic relationships. We have been reading them our whole lives and wondering why the formula has never applied.

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Autistic relationships do not look like what the magazines describe. The magazines are describing non Autistic relationships. We have been reading them our whole lives and wondering why the formula has never applied.

An Autistic friendship might run for years without a phone call. Picked up where it left off, whenever either of us has capacity. No maintenance labour. No weekly catch up requirement. No guilt about the gap. The bond is not storage dependent. It was set.

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