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>You don't watch much youtube these days.
>"Space cadet?"
"Aaaaaa sorry. Reporting for duty."
>"Let's party."
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>Be Anon
>Jenny's apartment is...
>To the untrained eye, it would be a mess.
>Given that she just all but told you she's autistic, you give her some benefit and look before judging
>It's still a mess. You are judging some.
>But you can see the functionality of it.
>The floor is clean, as is the couch
>The bedside table is literally just a chest with an alarm clock and various bedside access items scattered about atop
>The bed is an air mattress...
>There are clear spots where it has been patched.
>A clear path from the couch to the bed has been carved out, looking into the kitchenette you see a series of what look like mild disability mediation contraptions hung on the wall
>"God, I'm sorry it's such a mess..."
"It's alright, it's not a mess in a terrible sense. I've seen far worse."
>She laughs
>"Not likely."
"I grew up in a hoarder house, trust me. You're clearly doing your best."
>"I guess... ooh! Check this out."
>She rushes into the kitchen and emerges making a fist with a weird sort of mechanical ouija 3d printed nightmare board strapped to her hand
>"I'm gonna send you to the Shadow Realm, haha..."
>She clearly loses momentum halfway through the statement and sort of deflates, you walk over and give her a hug, which she accepts and returns willingly
"You don't have to sell it by making a joke, it's cool. Tell me how it works."
>She grins, and starts what might as well be a university lecture on how much she loves springs and hates compliant mechanisms (the long and short of it is longevity and reliability)
>You start making the mixed drinks while she infodumps
>"-and like... I swear, youtube engineering spaces are designed to ship the absolute worst mindsets. I hated compliant mechanisms before Mark Rober blew them the fuck up, sure it was appropriate for the mostly two-dimensional nature of the blaster, but..."
>Vodka, lime juice, ice
>No tequila sadly, but vodka 'margaritas' are fine
>You've made them so often with cheap vodka and put them in the hooftripping cup that you've taken to calling them 'maregaritas' internally
>Marketing says the name should never reach the light of day
>"-and people are pretending like springs don't exist these days just because you can't produce them easily through additive manufacturing means!"
>It pains you to admit, but you keep tuning out to direct your focus to the drink-making. You like Jenny, you want her to like you too, but sometimes aspies really don't understand how much they can overwhelm the mind.
>You're somewhat of a normie externally, and the mindset transfers to some of your inner workings. You've unlearned many of the nastier habits of normalfaggotry, the kind that would make you curl up your nose in disgust at someone like Jenny while pretending you're still her friend.
>You might have once. It's a sad thought, you know you hurt people by being the way you were.