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A Personal Story from the Spectrum

As for the social side, it was trial and error. A lot of trial. A lot of error. The entirety of socialisation, from the unwritten rules that govern our interactions, to the unspoken social cues, to understanding the nuances of speech and knowing when to take meanings literally or read in between the lines; they were a complex tangle of incomprehensible messes that I felt I was banging my head against over and over.