Feeling like my neurotypical friends don't understand my autism

Hi everyone 

I feel like my neurotypical friends don't  understand my autism?  They don't get how certain things that are easy for them can feel much harder for me.  

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  • Hey again, 

    I watched a small Russian film recently, the name is 'Every 88th'. 

    In the film, a young Soviet soldier dies fighting Nazi forces, and wakes up in the afterlife, which is nothing but a queue, with your place determined by how well you lived. He is near the beginning of the queue. 

    When it is his turn to start a new life, Fate gives him a 'black ticket'- autism, no father, etc. 

    H starts a huge argument with Fate, saying he wants to be 'useful' to society, then finally that he doesn't want to be disabled, and asks Fate if she saw how they are treated in the world. 

    Fate turns to him and says 'And, in your opinion, they (autistic people) aren't 'people'? If they can't hold a spoon properly then that's it, they're not even human now, in your opinion?' 

    Distraught, the soldier gives up his ticket and goes to the back of the queue ('Hell'). But on the way, someone (who was being carried by another as he couldn't walk) shouts to him

    'I don't care who I'm born as, it matters to me that there will always be someone who understands me'

    He considers this and then sprints back to the transport pulling away to the next life, and manages to get aboard. He is reborn as a severely autistic man who in his adult years wins a Fields medal. As he is giving a presentation, Fate watches him from the crowd of spectators. 

    The film ends by showing many famous autistic people over the years, such as Dmitri Shostakovich, Grigori Perelman, and others. 

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  • Hey again, 

    I watched a small Russian film recently, the name is 'Every 88th'. 

    In the film, a young Soviet soldier dies fighting Nazi forces, and wakes up in the afterlife, which is nothing but a queue, with your place determined by how well you lived. He is near the beginning of the queue. 

    When it is his turn to start a new life, Fate gives him a 'black ticket'- autism, no father, etc. 

    H starts a huge argument with Fate, saying he wants to be 'useful' to society, then finally that he doesn't want to be disabled, and asks Fate if she saw how they are treated in the world. 

    Fate turns to him and says 'And, in your opinion, they (autistic people) aren't 'people'? If they can't hold a spoon properly then that's it, they're not even human now, in your opinion?' 

    Distraught, the soldier gives up his ticket and goes to the back of the queue ('Hell'). But on the way, someone (who was being carried by another as he couldn't walk) shouts to him

    'I don't care who I'm born as, it matters to me that there will always be someone who understands me'

    He considers this and then sprints back to the transport pulling away to the next life, and manages to get aboard. He is reborn as a severely autistic man who in his adult years wins a Fields medal. As he is giving a presentation, Fate watches him from the crowd of spectators. 

    The film ends by showing many famous autistic people over the years, such as Dmitri Shostakovich, Grigori Perelman, and others. 

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