The Intentional Hulk

At the grocery store, the cashier might ask if I just put a rutabaga on the conveyor belt, and I’ll answer so oddly and nervously that it sounds like it’s actually a rutabaga-disguised bomb. Then, I might try to make up for it with some “I’m a normal person, really I am” type of banter that might or might not do the job. I never know which.

I’m a late diagnosed and high-masking autistic woman. This is the perspective because I can't help it, plus, I want other autistics to know they aren’t alone and unseen. I want non-autistics to see and understand.

I won’t say I notice everything, but I have a nose for details that baffles my husband. This is an awful thing to have sometimes, sometimes not. I also think a lot, which means that I often figure things out before anyone else does. It might come off like a rutabaga-disguised bomb, but there’s always a lot of intention in it.