One Person Asked

07 Apr, 2026

Dear Kari,

One person asked if I was autistic. A single person asked.

I was at my favorite pub, at a table with a gay black man and a man and woman, all of us bar acquaintances. The woman kept taking me out to slow dance so she could make the man jealous.

The gay man liked me and he was paying a lot of attention to me. He was looking at me and he said, "Are you autistic?"

And the woman immediately retorted, "He's not autistic."

But she didn't even know me.

???