Masking...

Switch out personas based on who you're dealing with and what they're expecting.

Check that my keys are in my hand when I lock the car. Then immediately panic and check again as soon as I drop them in my pocket.

Plan ahead and decide on which time in the evening I will stop thinking about important things. Unless they are fun. Looks like 21 today.

Down voting pictures with direct eye contact who have nothing to do with the topic... And also downvoting pictures with direct eye contact without warning...

turn off all the ceiling lights in every room I enter

There's nothing I do every day. I suppose refusing to turn on lights because the dark comforts me?

I eat the same meal about 4 days of the week. It's easy to make, cheap, healthy(ish) and I don't get tired of it.

If for some reason I get one of my hands wet I then need to get the other one wet aswell. I dislike asymmetries like this. Same with temperatures, I one hand or foot is colder than the other I need to equalise them.

Practice reacting to things that I imagine people might say to me.

Facial expressions and body language are hard to remember to do.

I talk to myself when I am thinking, especially if what I am thinking about relates to emotional processing. I have never recorded myself doing this, but I don’t think I vocalise complete sentences. While I’m processing, I repeat a contextually relevant word or phrase over and over again, even if I think I’ve moved past it in my head.

I find myself doing this in public sometimes (whoops), but with silent mouth movements. Earphones help me avoid looking dodgy or like I’m hallucinating.

I do not like this picture.

Repeat slowly what they said before answering

I'm neurotypical myself, but I wash my hands with soap maybe 20 or 30 times a day

Itt: people think they can diagnose others through one text message

Being unable to focus on two separate things at once.

Having the same or at least as close as possible day to day routine and actually enjoying and thriving in it. Added benefit, others look at me like I'm just highly disciplined to put up with it.

As I've understood most NTs seem to go insane if they already have to eat the same food for more than a few times in row, obviously depending. Much less having to follow same day to day routine for any extended period of time.

Get trapped in the bath, bed, couch because I've got laundry, pots, shopping to do.

Self medicate with near a gallon of tea. I'll drink coffee too, but I prefer the 'high' tea gives. I'm sure there's some actual science, but it all sounds woo like to me.

Oops, I'm not autistic, didn't see the comm. My bad. Feature request: be able to mark a comm [special interest] and throw up a "you're posting/commenting to a [special interest] comm are you sure you want to do that?"

For me its the clothing I choose to wear or not brushing my hair every day. I have to have a reason to do things. Mostly I just try to do whats needed each day and enjoy the simplet things. I would like to think most people could appreciate that. Still so many people are wasteful and do not seem to realy get long time and area scales.

Pace and review axioms - like sooooo much. People sometimes see me and call me freak even. Don't care. My brain is a tank and thoughts go pew pew.

I manually click the buttons to check for updates and I use a VPN all the time for everything

I even install the updates right away if there's something new and restart whatever needs to be restarted