one of the craziest asexual (and high-key autistic) experiences is finding out that calling and/or thinking that someone is "hot" or "sexy" or smth means you Actively want to fuck them,,, like have the sex with that person??

A rarely talked about* autistic experience is being friendly and fun and talkative as a kid, and having interests and sharing them with people and having friends that have those interests too, but you still feel separate and lonely and Other somehow. You have friends around you but something feels different. You drift away because it doesn’t feel right. You have friends but you’re still lonely.

Also as an autistic woman Mels character even just one episode in just speaks to me.

So, I don’t really fit the term semiverbal, but I definitely don’t fit as a fully verbal autistic either. Because of this, I’ve been thinking of what a good term would be for sorta verbal (aka can reliably talk a decent amount of the time, but also has plenty of verbal shutdowns, and a little trouble speaking in a way that’s usually not all that hindering when able to speak) autistic. I decided on demi-verbal and think this sums up my experiences pretty well. I’ve never seen demi-verbal anywhere and searching for it brought up nothing.