It’s not until perhaps you engage with others who are willing to point out your blunted expressions or black and white thinking that you realise how the NT’s claim to accept you for who you are but only when it doesn’t effect them negatively in their own social and family group relationships or they don’t want to feel “embarrassed” because you haven’t gone to the family reunion. Why does everyone else get a get out of jail free card for a cold or a headache but those with autism are just expecting to “conform” because that’s what “normal” people do. Autistic individuals do want to be around others but when they choose, life’s hard enough already, NTs do not get it at all.
