My partner and I are both autistic and we've been trying to figure out how to have friends over together but our sensory needs are almost opposite and every time we try to host people it ends with one of us overwhelmed and the other feeling like we can't have a normal social life.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people with different neurological processing styles are discovering that their individual accommodations create impossible conditions for shared experiences.
“Where Are You with Autism spectrum — lived experience?”
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