I’m autistic. Trust me, being introverted isn’t a shield against lockdown loneliness

Extroverts aren’t the only ones struggling. Even people like me need to run their experiences by someone from time to time

Without a routine, I’d developed a nocturnal sleep pattern as though I were existing in a parallel time zone to the world outside where life carried on as normal and people remained totally oblivious to my predicament. When the public got up for work and the rush hour began, I was just going to sleep, my mind unrested from the hours ofI’d been binge-watching the night before. A steady diet of junk food made me fat and listless, while a lack of conversation was driving me to near-insanity.

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