Okay, so there's been something else that's been on my mind for a while and I know I'm so sorry. I know that this topic is annoying. You see it all over TikTok everywhere and it just seems like everyone is just hopping on a bandwagon when it comes to talking about autism and so many people are like self-diagnosing and just, I get it. It sounds annoying. It's very kind of weird for me to watch that too on social media, but like I kid you not, I just like got a diagnosis and so all of this is new to me. And so it's hard for me to like find a community because when I go online, it's just a bunch of people saying like, oh, you're just like, Haku, you didn't say this before and it's like, well, I didn't know before. I don't know. It's just been difficult. But what I wanted to talk about is like, how do people that are late diagnosed or just an adult with autism, how do they navigate their relationships platonically? I mean, like just looking for friends, it feels like it's a struggle, you know? And I just kind of had this realization today that like there's going to be people that I can hang out with and have a good time with, but maybe I'm not able to have like an intimate relationship with them, which is fine. Like, I get it. Not everyone is cut out for like being super close friends. Some people just want to hang out and chill and I'm cool with that. But it's just like, how do you even get there?

I don't know how it feels but I do have a 9 year old girl with autistic. And um... She is the best thing in my life.

It took me a really long time to push this button and respond. And then I was like, oh, I guess I could talk about that. That makes it hard.

Yeah, I have an old friend who told me I was faking autism because I was diagnosed so late and it was really annoying. But just try to see what traits of autism you can relate with and see if anyone has the same hyper fixations as you.

bro you gotta find someone that also has autism you know with a diagnostic or not if you have autism usually you know you just start talking to someone and then you just know that they're on the spectrum you know that's how it worked out for me I had to find someone that had like the same like mental wiring as me you know