But I find being around people so hard. Any people. There’s all this noise and light and color and sensation, all the time, and I don’t know how to read tone or emotions or jokes or sarcasm or flirting. It’s like all the things that everyone else can do automatically, I have to do manually. And I get overwhelmed. Constantly. That’s the face you’re seeing, Will. It’s me, trying to process everything at once.” It’s true that I hate dirt and dog hair and lateness and mess and loud noises and crowds and being wet or muddy—and, truthfully, a lot of those things seem to come with Will—but it’s not a
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