Interview with an autistic guy

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I recently had the awesome experience of being an autism study subject. This entailed everything from an MRI to an EEG to Raven’s Progressive Matrices, which I’m pretty sure my brain decided to prioritize as an ability at the expense of pretty much everything else.

There was a more life-related interview part that I don’t want to forget about. So I figured I’d write out what I can remember, messy steam-of-consciousness style, in case someone needs to feel less alone or understand a…