I dated a girl that was mildly autistic. Something was off and kinda weird about her but I couldn’t figure it out. She was difficult to read. She communicated very poorly. Yeah I know average people aren’t great at communicating, especially the ones with traumatic experiences, but she was especially difficult to understand. I told her once that she was difficult to read and as a result, difficult to connect with. She literally said yeah maybe that because I’m partially autistic. Thought she was joking then noticed she had a book about understanding her autism in her bedroom. She was a therapist too by the way. She would tell me about some of her clients and how frustrated she was with some of them. So I’m sitting there thinking these complaints aren’t that bad and wondering if she actually had the capacity to be a therapist. She lacked the social awareness/skills. Idk if you ever felt that way but it is at least a mild hindrance in your social life. It’s even more problematic for men imo because women rely so much social cues and feeling safe.