4 min readJul 26, 2022
Autism and Gifts
I struggle so much with gift protocol on both ends, the recipient and the donor. Yes, I was taught basic rules of gift giving as a child, but it always feels like there is some advanced class on gift giving that everyone else went to and I was sick that day, and no one took notes or will admit that there are notes and so I’m just perpetually behind, offending people, or just bewildered.