Neurodivergent on Sidechat | Does anyone else find that while autistic people understand them better it’s harder to make plans with them? Like they’ll randomly stop replying or canceling plans last minute. I’m autistic and that’s what I’ve found.

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Neurodivergent 2w

Does anyone else find that while autistic people understand them better it’s harder to make plans with them? Like they’ll randomly stop replying or canceling plans last minute. I’m autistic and that’s what I’ve found.

Anonymous 2w

Yeah. I hate it, but I am really bad at keeping plans. I’ll think that something sounds good when I first commit to it, but then when the day comes I feel really burned out or overwhelmed and have to cancel. My friends aren’t autistic though, so a lot of the plans are really loud and social which makes it harder to show up for :/ I wish I had friends that wanted to come over to do a puzzle or something😂😭

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Anonymous 2w

Lately all my new contacts said we would hang out and flake on me

Anonymous 2w

My stupid ass had to read this like 3 times before figuring out you said while instead of white

Anonymous

#1 2w

This last happened to me when I planned to study with someone.

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OP 2w

Dang. I feel like I understand it more for like parties and stuff like that, but getting together to study is so chill :/

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3crows_in_a_trenchcoat 2w

This is similar to the linguistic phenomenon known as the garden path effect, which is a form of syntactic priming. It’s when you parse a sentence one way when it’s actually suppose to be parsed the other way. For example, if I say “The horse raced past the barn fell”, your brain also probably got confused. I’m a linguistics major. A very queer and autistic people filled major.