Unlike most of the autistic people in this piece, I generally “don’t want friends, have little social motivation and prefer a life of self-isolation”—but I also note that “incidental human contact” is the thing that the pandemic choked off for me, until businesses started being able to open for takeout or outdoor seating.
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