Arnold Mal

I always knew I was different from everyone else. I called myself “weird” a lot and thought I looked strange on video. I often pointed out how I don’t think like everyone else. I also asked people how they knew things about social situations often, or ran social situations by others to get a better understanding of them. It’s like I knew I didn’t think about social matters like everyone else did. To me people either (a) made wayyy too many assumptions about others and interactions or (b) had a 6th sense for social experiences.

One day, I was at a gathering a a friend’s house. It seems that I said something that was not normal, even though I thought it was completely normal, and a friend said, “Don’t mind him. He’s autistic.” That’s when I realized that maybe my comment didn’t land well. The next day, to get my friend back by making him feel guilty, I looked for online autism tests to send him the results so he would be worried that I was ruminating on it. To my surprise, my results kept coming back that I was likely autistic. Later that day when I saw my friend again, I asked him if he really thought I was autistic, to which he responded a bit confused with, “Well…yeah.” After further discussion, I learned that it is pretty apparent that I’m autistic, so my friend thought that I would have been aware. Nope! I always knew that I like people that were “a bit autistic” and even liked toys for autistic kids, but never really thought tat about myself.

I became obsessed with learning about autism, which further lead me to believe I was autistic. Then, I scheduled an assessment with an autism psychologist for a thorough evaluation. She confirmed it pretty easily, so I was diagnosed not only with autism spectrum disorder, but ADHD also (I knew about me being ADHD my entire life though).

Weird, I’m on desktop. Maybe it’s my theme: darkly-pureblack. Anyway, here’s how it looks on my end:

🔔🔔🔔 Hear ye! 🔔🔔🔔 Hear ye!!🔔🔔🔔

Whereas this petition has been formally requested, I hereby declare and/or proclaim with the memory of Casey Jones and all others present to serve as witnesses that, henceforth, all model trains shall be legally named “Then”!

Disclaimer: IANAL (I am not a lawyer; pronounced: I-anal) and this is not legal or financial advice.

Cool! Btw, how did you get those words to come out purple??