My experience with people on the spectrum (I'm a card carrying member myself) is very diverse but there is a constant: they're stubborn on specific stuff where others are not. For example, I don't want to sit near someone who's eating hard cheese (non-melted). I don't mind someone eating whatever though (and even if I would, personal choice). Looking back in my life, I learned a lot from RPGs (Hero Quest, Star Quest, various Gameboy Classic games, Warhammer Quest, Warcraft franchise (story-wise, too). More so than RTS or FPS. But I have also been nigh annoying whilst playing them. It helps to learn you are being annoying, as conflict allows one to rise up to the occasion. That being said, you need to accept certain quirks as being part of the package. That is how any friendship or relation works; just people with autism are usually more accentuated. My wife and I are both on the spectrum, and we need to work with/around each other's quirks. Just the other day she demanded me to clean and refill a water bottle as she tastes other people otherwise. She even has that w/me, I found out (we are together for almost a decade). So I ended up cleaning it (she was with our son who was ill).
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My experience with people on the spectrum (I'm a card carrying member myself) is very diverse but there is a constant: they're stubborn on specific stuff where others are not. For example, I don't want to sit near someone who's eating hard cheese (non-melted). I don't mind someone eating whatever though (and even if I would, personal choice). Looking back in my life, I learned a lot from RPGs (Hero Quest, Star Quest, various Gameboy Classic games, Warhammer Quest, Warcraft franchise (story-wise, too). More so than RTS or FPS. But I have also been nigh annoying whilst playing them. It helps to learn you are being annoying, as conflict allows one to rise up to the occasion. That being said, you need to accept certain quirks as being part of the package. That is how any friendship or relation works; just people with autism are usually more accentuated. My wife and I are both on the spectrum, and we need to work with/around each other's quirks. Just the other day she demanded me to clean and refill a water bottle as she tastes other people otherwise. She even has that w/me, I found out (we are together for almost a decade). So I ended up cleaning it (she was with our son who was ill).