@carriem.co.uk, you certainly were ahead of the curve - thanks again for the invite, way-back-when! Just took me the better part of a year to go through the 5 stages of grief at the thought of learning how to use another social media platform... ๐คฃ
๐๐ค Thanks so much, so glad you enjoyed it!!
-- and then I receive wonderfully kind messages from readers thanking me for 'the autistic representation'... Gives one something to think about. ๐
Which is to say, at the time, I didn't intentionally write Mary as autistic - but if I'm autistic (and I probably am), then she is, too. :)
If it isn't too late to reply, 9 months late... ๐
I've never been formally assessed/DX'ed/etc as autistic myself, but there's this funny thing that keeps happening to me, wherein I write characters whom I find very relatable, and who think in similar ways to myself --
๐ญ๐ค Thank you so very much!!
So... I guess I'm finally taking the jump and trying to figure out how to use Bluesky! (9 months after I first made an account.... ๐) To all the people whose lovely messages and comments I'm only just replying to now, I do apologize... ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ ๐