#in retrospect the neurodivergence really was Most Broadly noticable at work.

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Growing up adhd/autistic afab is Literally being faster than the (broken buttons, proccessing speed slower than your typing speed) calculator that your shitty minimum wage job gives you instead of a proper register and then sitting at the counter waiting for an elderly republican man to type his (Handwritten By You, because you have no register) itemized receipt into the calculator on his phone, holding up the entire pre-dinner rush, only for him to say "Look! You're wrong" and having to show him how to go into the calculators history to show him that he typed 120.25 as 12.025 and that you are, in fact, correct, just for him to ask for your manager, get the girl (Who KNOWS how much you love number families and addition) whos basically your work-sister instead because your manager is gone for the last three hours of every workday (understandably, shes older than your parents and takes one day off a week, you feel bad for her, yet customers expect her there 24/7), and now you're down another staff member as he makes her put all of this into the calculator while you redo the maths by hand, and you still finish up before she does, but the both of you get the same answer this time cause your coworker knows exactly which buttons are finicky today and has the self control to type slow enough for the calculator to process. The man then pays his over $300 bill, cursing the audacity of women these days, and leaves. (He'll be back this same time next week, and make a fuss about the new prices since supply has tanked)

But hey! No one else in that line complained about you Not using the calculator, and a lot of the older women (mostly teachers and accountants, made you happy) gave you comoliments and complained about His audacity, so it was fine, really.