So I guess if i had some advise based on my experience it would be to remember the test probably defines “party” as something like “your office christmas party where you have to talk with Sheryl from accounts about whatever office drama she’s trying to stir up”.

it is difficult to know what they actually want to know, I wish they were better at asking their questions to suss out differences or abnormalities - I am old now and a lot of the things that bothered me extremely as a child when I didn’t have coping strategies are not as much a problem now. For example, texture sensitivity - growing up I hated the texture of most clothes, blankets, bedding, etc. I liked the way old, distressed cotton and like cotton flannel felt - to an almost obsessive degree, and I suffered for many years as a child without control over the clothes I could wear, etc. but once I was a teenager and had some say in what I could wear, I only used cotton flannel sheets and was wearing only cotton flannel clothes. Tags are another thing, I actually forgot that clothing tags really bother me, because I made it a habit to remove tags and to buy clothes without tags. It could easily slip my mind that this is true about me, and it was a source of immense distress as a child, but something I don’t even think about now.

So, it’s hard when I’ve adapted and learned to cope on so many fronts to remember that those were ever challenges in some sense.

But yes, thank you - I will try my best, but I suspect I struggle to read context and that this is the very deficit that makes it hard to ensure I answer the questions right 😅

P.S. I hope I wasn’t being shitty with the joke about your long comments. Please know I love your long comments and they help me and many other people and I love you for posting them.

oh, you weren’t being shitty - it was probably the best thing you could have said; I have no self-awareness and just think my comments are normal, calling it out is both genuinely hilarious but also helpful 😁