Many things that seem perfectly clear to typical girls couldn’t be more confusing for us. Friendships. Fashion. Flirting. We don’t just “pick those things up” without effort. Instead, we study scripts—stage directions, novels, movies, social media posts—and mimic better than any neurotypical I’ve ever seen. We anxiously overthink some things and impulsively underthink others. What we almost never do, though, is to listen to our instincts (let alone trust them). That is, with one exception: when life comes at you really, really fast, it doesn’t always leave time to think. Or overthink. There’s
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