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Where’s my in?? Conversation partner behaving frustratingly appropriately

Added 2024-12-17 11:00:04 +0000 UTC

Piece by Sara Gibbs, Image Envato

An autistic woman has expressed frustration after a new acquaintance refused to break the ice by crossing any social boundaries, it has been rumoured.

Ffiona Maw, 31, had been Bluesky mutuals with Jay Chester, 33, for over a month and had hoped to cultivate a friendship, but found herself disappointed by Chester’s refusal to pop the conversational cork that would allow her to spray her real personality all over them.

Maw said: “I really like Jay, but if they don’t overshare about how their first crush was on their cousin some time soon, I don’t know where we go from here.”

“I’ve been waiting for anything - a clumsy comment, an awkward anecdote, a confession about a secret kink - to give me permission to be a little freak at them,” Maw continued. “But so far they’ve just talked about work.”

Chester commented: “God I hope Ffiona says something inappropriate soon, I don’t know how much longer I can talk about my office’s filing system.”