on the spectrum too and I know EXACTLY how this feels

I'm not even afraid of them knowing I'm autistic as much as I'm afraid of accidentally alienating them by doing something that feels completely normal to me but breaks some unspoken social rule

I often worry that I'm doing eye contact/posture/facial expressions/voice tone/turn-taking/face-reading/god knows what else WRONG WRONG WRONG and that these subtle cues might all be adding up to drive people away