I love when my one friend info dumps their literary passions at me.
They 100% think my eyes are glazing over while I’m pondering the info. Until I have follow up questions and their little autistic face lights up to re-engage.
They’re one of my favorite humans, I should text them 😄
Other person: “Team A is playing against Team B! It’s the first time in X years that they’ve been in the grand finals!”
Me: who? what game is this?
(Australia is obsessed with football and cricket, to the extent where you can’t help but pick up a few names just because they’re talked about so much.)
Some don’t have handshakes. Radio broadcasting just infodumps on everyone, which is also what some neurodivergent people wish they could do
I love when my one friend info dumps their literary passions at me.
They 100% think my eyes are glazing over while I’m pondering the info. Until I have follow up questions and their little autistic face lights up to re-engage.
They’re one of my favorite humans, I should text them 😄
“Now I can tell everyone about the British Rail Class 55 Deltic… Wait… you want to what? … Top 40 what? Pop… Music? Noooooooo!”
Or sports…
Other person: “Team A is playing against Team B! It’s the first time in X years that they’ve been in the grand finals!” Me: who? what game is this?
(Australia is obsessed with football and cricket, to the extent where you can’t help but pick up a few names just because they’re talked about so much.)
Crickets you say, I am sure we could get someone to ramble about bugs for hours.