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Speaker 1: Today, I afked up by asking my friend when her

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Speaker 1: brother was diagnosed with autism, and you probably didn't have autism.

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Speaker 2: That's uh that's that's like awkward. That's like worse than

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Speaker 2: saying uh, oh yeah, when's the baby do?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh, when's your autism appointment? Don't be a suman,

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Speaker 1: don't be a suoman. So I twenty seven female was

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Speaker 1: chatting with my friend twenty three female over coffee today

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Speaker 1: and she mentioned her brother, fourteen male. I've met her

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Speaker 1: brother a few times. He's nice, but socially awkward. I

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Speaker 1: work in disability services and her brother has a lot

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Speaker 1: of autistic traits. His mannerism, his mannerisms, he avoids eye contact,

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Speaker 1: he knows a lot about very niche subjects. And she's

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Speaker 1: also mentioned how he hates change and needs to be

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Speaker 1: told way in advance if plans change.

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Speaker 2: At least she's a professional.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so professional diagnosis right here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So, my friend t started talking about her brother and

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Speaker 1: how he is having trouble making friends at school, and

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Speaker 1: during the conversation I asked her and her brother was

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Speaker 1: diagnosed with autism. It was comical how the coffee she

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Speaker 1: was about to drink stilled in front of her mouth

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Speaker 1: as she stared at me. She paused for a few

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Speaker 1: moments before asking, Uh, what do you mean? And it

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Speaker 1: was my turn to be confused. I said, your brother

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Speaker 1: has autism, right. She got really quiet and kind of reflective.

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Speaker 1: I sat there nervously, and after a while she replied,

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Speaker 1: I never really thought about it. That's just how he's

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Speaker 1: always been. The conversation slowed after that, and eventually we

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Speaker 1: both left a cafe, and eventually we both left the cafe.

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Speaker 1: But I'm confused where to go from here. It's part

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Speaker 1: of my job description to notice these things. I should

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Speaker 1: have kept my freaking mouse shut and then it wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have ended as badly as it did. But I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: sure my friend's brother has autism, so shouldn't have shouldn't

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Speaker 1: have like blurted it out. But I do kind of

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Speaker 1: feel for that, because it's like, that is your job. Yeah, dude,

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Speaker 1: I mean really, really that French should be thanking her

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Speaker 1: because free, free diagnosis.

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Speaker 2: Honestly, there we go