I deeply relate to the strong sense of social justice, because when I was in my h-gh sc---l (tw and cw for sch--l mention in case people have trauma from it), I took a social equity and justice class in grade 12 (I loved the absolute hell out of that class), and when I was even younger, I wanted to protect my late dog (he died in June 3rd of 2012) from whenever one of my parents would be justifiably angry with him. As for clumsiness, I can sometimes relate to that, but for the friendships, I deeply related to that, but also because people out there can be real assholes (can also be an advantage for Autistic individuals and especially Plural Autistics to protect themselves from neurotypical and singlet harm).

Thank you for this excellent article, Ines! I look forward to seeing more. /cordial

~Ciel (They/He/Xe+)