Here is what works for me. If it doesn’t for you then that’s understandable.

At some point it gets easier to live with less than to work more. Jobs that pay a lot always either:

• are painfully hard
• require rare degrees of certification
• require a lack of morality Many combine several of those items.

Personally I live with way less than what would be considered “low” in my country: it pays for my home, food (as long as I cook myself most of the time) and I am even able to keep some around in case of need. Now with that said I have no idea how it is in your country so my advice are probably off.

French. I know a bit of Spanish too but not much.

I speak English. That’s a foreign language for me… Does that count?

In french that’s the word for a merry-go-round

Those cubes do ring a bell although I suspect it may be fabricated memories. It being an IQ test makes sense with what was told to me, thanks!

The pictures question wasn’t about “comparing two pictures”: pictures were presented only one by one and I was supposed to find “what was wrong”.

My dad coming should be just a one-time thing, he lives hundreds of kilometers away and wouldn’t make the trip just for fun. But yeah, writing it down is definitely something I’m doing (thanks for reminding me, I would have forgotten…)

Thank you! I guess I’ll still mask anyway because, well, I can’t picture myself not masking at all when interacting with a stranger, and even less if my father is present. Also this shouldn’t be my last appointment so hopefully I’ll have other occasions.

Thanks for your account! Mine won’t be remote, and I don’t have any animal at home (except some spiders but they are too cute to eat my cords).

This. Except I’m not limited to authority figures and that’s sometimes very hard to handle. Like if a friend wants to invite me on monday but I already have something planned with another friend that same day I sometimes feel like giving the real reason would make them jealous. Yes, I know I shouldn’t do this, and I’m working on it, but it’s not easy. It’s especially hard when the real reason is something like “spending time with you in particular is very stressful for me and I can’t handle it”.

Here in France (American) comics aren’t common. Findable if you look for them, but you won’t see it in your supermarket. Meanwhile mangas are almost as popular as our own kind of comics (bandes dessinées) which is its own thing.

I’m a huge fan of bandes dessinées but also read my fair share of mangas. Meanwhile I must have read perhaps one or two comics in total unless you count “Picsou magazine” (Picsou is the french translation for Scrooge McDuck)

Had a Therion phase. Also Ultra Vomit but it doesn’t have the same appeal now that they have become bigger.

I’d say Modded Minecraft, Factorio, Céleste and one I can’t advertise because it’s NSFW.

The taste of several specific things (cheese that “turned bad”, garlic that isn’t perfectly fresh), high-pitched sounds, and a few more I don’t have in mind.

A few of those items are only redflags if done in a specific way. For example about “non-reciprocal”: if you are in a wheelchair and your partner is arachnophobic, it makes sense that you are the only one who takes care about dealing with spiders while your partner is the only one who helps you move around. I recommend that you start consulting this kind of list only when something starts to “not feel right”, otherwise you’ll poison all your relations before they even start (because there is no such thing as a perfect relationship). Still I’m no relationship expert, so take my advice for what it’s worth.

I have something that may or may not be related: some stuff just makes me physically faint. It’s never sudden, I see it coming and if I manage to get away from the trigger, lay down and wait it goes away, but if I can’t do it quick enough I know it can be dangerous. Among the triggers are intense pain (like burning your stomach by swallowing something too hot) but also conversations about “real” body horror (a movie is fine, but somebody telling me about how their plan to get an operation often isn’t, back in middle school I remember fainting as the teacher was talking about some health risk).

Not speaking for all of them but sometimes just feeling good about yourself is enough. You can even tell them how you appreciate their efforts (assuming you do)

Reddit wasn’t even always like that: I’d say it progressively went downhill during the last decade. Design choices were progressively made to tailor the most toxic users.

I do care. I totally get how you can be charismatic in school despite being autistic, that is perhaps the biggest misconception. I personally think if I had no morals and just wanted to make money my best bet would be running some kind of cult (but that would be wrong ofc).