So, I met this dude in a LiveLesson (basically just a classroom where the teacher is teaching, but through the internet) who is enrolled in the same online school program as me last week.
We were working in break out rooms (small groups for colab), and he was one of the people that was in there. I usually use my mic in BO rooms. I turned on my mic and read one of the sentences on-screen in a dramatic, movie trailer-type of voice. My friend also had his mic on and complimented me verbally about how funny that was. We eventually got our work in the BO rooms done, the BO session ended, and then the livelesson after some final announcements by our teachers.
I decided to initiate conversation with him through webmail. Long story short, we became friends and we exchanged Discord usernames and IDs with each other.
Starting from the beginning of the Discord chat, it was clear that we were becoming good friends quick.
Yesterday, I decided to tell him that I have autism. I usually don't tell somebody this unless I've known them for around a month, but, since our friendship was going so well already, I decided that I should tell him. Plus I think it should be more open about it with my peers.
After I told him, he said that he wouldn't treat me any differently. That, "a friend is a friend, why should something like that make a difference?" kinda thing.
It felt that an elephant just got right up off my chest and started it's way back to Africa after I have told him that. It was such a relief. I am so glad that I have such good friends.
Seriously, though. I am so glad that he is my friend. He is such a cool dude!
We were working in break out rooms (small groups for colab), and he was one of the people that was in there. I usually use my mic in BO rooms. I turned on my mic and read one of the sentences on-screen in a dramatic, movie trailer-type of voice. My friend also had his mic on and complimented me verbally about how funny that was. We eventually got our work in the BO rooms done, the BO session ended, and then the livelesson after some final announcements by our teachers.
I decided to initiate conversation with him through webmail. Long story short, we became friends and we exchanged Discord usernames and IDs with each other.
Starting from the beginning of the Discord chat, it was clear that we were becoming good friends quick.
Yesterday, I decided to tell him that I have autism. I usually don't tell somebody this unless I've known them for around a month, but, since our friendship was going so well already, I decided that I should tell him. Plus I think it should be more open about it with my peers.
After I told him, he said that he wouldn't treat me any differently. That, "a friend is a friend, why should something like that make a difference?" kinda thing.
It felt that an elephant just got right up off my chest and started it's way back to Africa after I have told him that. It was such a relief. I am so glad that I have such good friends.
Seriously, though. I am so glad that he is my friend. He is such a cool dude!
