I primarily ask this, because for a large part of my life, I have found it hard to build meaningful friendships with neurotypicals. I don’t know any autistic people in real life, but wonder if it would be easier for me to build friendships with them?

Or maybe this has more to do with general struggles of being autistic, rather than how alike I am to others. However, I always find neurotypicals don’t really go deep in conversation, but they enjoy small talk. Yet, I’m the complete opposite.

What has been your experience?

  • robinj1995@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    ND as a child and during early years of adulthood.

    NT during adulthood.

    Once I got a sufficiently good grasp of the social rules myself it actually became more difficult to talk to NDs.