Thread: Should I sell my best mate?

I was about to chime in with the "is the wife on the spectrum?" question. My 9yo daughter is the same - I guarantee you one thing that dog will be loved to within an inch of it's life and in a good way. The husband will be getting the stress about the dog moving like you wouldn't believe.

On a similar vein to the previous question someone asked, would you let the neighbour's wife have overnight "sleepovers" with the dog? It sounds funny, and 10 years ago I would have been WTF? but now having had my eyes opened to how this particular neurospicy works I can see the neighbour husband's point. I suspect his wife has completely fallen nutty over the dog because of the same nature you have noted, and he's probably pretty stressed about how things will be with that change in his wife's life. ASD types don't really do change/loss like that I've noted!

I'll add an edit here - it seems weird for us normies (or normal brain neurotypicals) but the spectrum brain can have a LOT of trouble navigating other humans as we do sarcasm and reverse psychology and a whole lot of confusing "say the opposite of what we mean" or "say what we feel and not what we mean" stuff which can be very hard for the autistic ones to navigate. I know with my daughter I need to be extremely careful with my usual immediate sarcastic response to everything, as she just does not get it and when she realises she's got it wrong it's usually a tears/meltdown situation. Females tend to become very good at "masking" behaviour which is closely watching the interactions emotions and expressions of the people around them and matching the vibe they see. It's insanely tiring to be "on point" observing and matching all day so they generally struggle with social interaction and get really fatigued, and females suffer worse for this than autistic males in my observation as social stuff is more smile/claws/happy/bitchy and a lot more work to navigate. This is what drives the infatuation with animals that you can get with autistic people - animals don't tend to bullshit and let you know exactly what they are feeling. Not a suck eggs sort of statement here - just trying to possibly add a bit of info as to why they might be willing to place such a high value on what the rest of us consider a non-pedigree dog... I can say it's been a hell of an education for me navigating a 9yo daughter with this diagnosis - the amount of info the girl's brain processes in a day is just crazy. Smart as hell but often can't do anything with it as completely fried with info going in!