#cause I realize I just communicate with my fiance chronically like thar

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Fellow autistics hear me out,

Allistic people do small talk for the same reasons we randomly make random screeches, meows and otherwise nonsensical noises at people we like - its to acknowledge the other persons existence and presence in a positive way

The only difference is that theyre accustomed to doing it in social norms and rules where you have to speak where as we, or at least I, see no point in forcing myself to come up with arbitrary things to say when I have verbality issues and could just make a bird noise.