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im autistic and am basically only friends with autistic people with like, one or two exceptions. i find talking to non-autistic people generally frustrating, and even those im close to I get pretty constantly frustrated that they don't tell me things or assume things i didn't intend.
as for the injustice sensitivity, it really drives me nuts too and is probably why i am drawn to leftist causes. generally i just vent about it to one of my autistic friends to get it out of my system and disengage when i feel myself getting bothered otherwise. but i'm kinda a people pleaser so i don't have trouble disengaging
also read unmasking autism that one's good
Appreciate the response. I think that's part of my issue is that I only really had one group of friends, so I didn't have separate people I could vent to, others to play games with, etc and kind of compartmentalize that. Definitely a lot of unintended meaning going around.
I do plan to start reading that book, it's already on my ereader.
the person i vent to is also in the friend group, we've just accepted we both have the type of autism that makes us rly petty and bitchy over nothing so we keep it to ourselves in dms lol
but i definitely recommend having more than one friend group in case one implodes. i have two that serve different purposes personally, one that's more supportive and one that's more silly. if you go into neurodivergent spaces and are aggressively friendly things tend to work out, or at least it did for me