I just remembered an analogy I made a while ago that I liked.

Many of my friends are not neurotypical and as I am not neurotypical myself one would think that would make it easier to understand them than neurotypical people, but in fact it's more like speaking two drastically different nonstandard dialects of the same language. Both I and they know the standard language, and can understand it, but we can each only easily speak our respective dialects, which can lead to misunderstandings.

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@Felthry hogeez, that's actually a rather good analogy!

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