If small talk is painful for you... eye contact is painful for you... & pretending to be interested

If small talk is painful... eye contact is painful... pretending to be interested in something you have zero interest in is painful...
You may be autistic... or have anxiety... or both.
--(follow up video)--
To everyone coming into my comments section when I share a common autistic struggle telling me "everyone does that"... here's what you need to understand....
The non autistic experience of that one thing I was talking about in that video you happened to see is NOT THE SAME as the autistic experience... because the autistic experience is compounded by hundreds, if not thousands of other common autistic challenges.
Your non autistic brain may experience that one thing... but then you get a break.
Not autistic people, though.
Our brain wiring creates an incessant and unrelenting onslaught of autistic challenges. And guess what? They come as a package of commonalities for people with autistic brain wiring.
So, when I share about a common autistic experience... it's not just me sharing about that one specific common experience... it's me creating a pathway for undiagnosed autistic people to learn about the common autistic experience as a whole.
And if you're not autistic... these videos are not for, or about you. So please stop chiming in with your unhelpful commentary and let undiagnosed autistic people find the answers they are so desperately looking for.

[@user-bt6id7ql2n]

Well said.

[@SL-ep4og]

👏👏👏

[@passaggioalivello]

A wise truth. Thank you.