Here's something wild lol, apparently im partially synesthetic. Sometimes i can see where sounds come from. Like a purple chartreuse after image light (the kind when you close your eyes after looking at a light bulb) where it originated if its loud and abrupt enough. Like at the location of the sounds origin. It's more accurate when it happens for telling what direction a sound came from then my hearing is.
Some people with really severe synesthesia literally see numbers on paper as rotating 3 dimensional geometries. It's pretty wild. That's apparently the most common form.
I actually didnt even realize that my form of it wasnt something everyone had until i switched to a new therapist when i settled down in KC. I just thought that was a thing that happens when you hear a loud sound my entire life.
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The double empathy theory challenges the idea that social difficulties are specific to autism and suggests that problems arise from a mismatch in perspective between autistic and non-autistic people.
www.thetransmitter.org
Most functioning autistic people live in a pretty solid fear of social interaction with anyone who does not know them very well, it's not that we dont want to interact though, it's just that we are very well aware how badly its going to go if we do. And how much worse it'll get if we panic or freeze up or something. Most people interacting with that, either just from that moment on forever act like theres something wrong with you, or they forever just act like theyre the reason it happened

that and infinitely more is already going through my head the second i see you coming towards me, especially if im not doing something physical i can focus on.
Im sure it's been pretty obvious i dont really understand how being social is supposed to work

It feels bizarre as hell to me, that there's even a "way" youre supposed to be social.
And trying to actually explain all of this to a new person face to face in a social situation while already trying to fight off sensory overload? Nah, that's a bad idea lmao. Comes back around to why im not a concert fella even though im a guitar player. Why i couldnt take NOAA anymore, and why im a lowly groundskeeper with a college education. I could pull like a $1800 a month ssdi check if i wanted to, but thats a lot less then i pull in on my own. And it would prevent me from actually having a real job or moving onwards and upwards permanently.