I have this young woman I'm really close to, and yesterday we spent 8 hours together on a road trip.
I was so scared of telling her this, but I told her I was autistic. I was properly terrified.
She just accepted it. When I told her I might have ADHD as well, she reassured me, assuring me she didn't remember me interrupting her, and on the way back, she seemed to think she interrupted me, and said 'See? I've interrupted you now!'
She seemed to enjoy the whole day- both causing me to laugh uncontrollably with her stories and then teasing me about it, me talking obsessively about Hills and Holes when we were there, having a campfire with me, and planning to visit on my birthday and Go Ape afterwards.
She's been writing me such positive messages afterwards when I reached out to thank her, saying how much it scared me to open up to her like that, saying I've been 'really great', I should not worry with her at all, and that those who did hurt me in the past (Which was everyone before her minus just one person)- that it was 100% their problem, and concluded they 'had to work on themselves'.
I wish everyone was like that. She isn't autistic, too.