Lovesick Over You

Your Boyfriend, Dylan, and an autistic darling

❤️ It may be hard to tell him, but your boyfriend doesn't care that you're autistic - he loves everything about you, even the parts that you consider ugly

❤️ Memorizes your safe foods and prescreens restaurants to make sure you can eat there

❤️ Finds almost any stim you do so cute! - the only ones he doesn't like are the harmful stims like hitting yourself. He'll try to help redirect the energy when they occur to pillows or even himself (which isn't healthy, but he doesn't care if it helps you to not hurt yourself)

❤️ If you stim vocally he'll join in; meowing, chirping, completing vines or jokes with you. He wants to make you feel comfortable being yourself around him

❤️ Patient and willing to help you navigate social situations, even if he himself gets uncomfortable in public. Keeps a running commentary to explain conversations or jokes

❤️ Always attentive when you infodump about your current hyperfixation, and asks lots of questions about it. Will even try to learn more independently so he can understand what you're talking about

❤️ Willing to lie down on you instead of being the big spoon for deep touch pressure

❤️ He'll carry stim toys and chewlery in his pockets for when you need to calm down or occupy yourself

❤️ Gets so, so, SO protective - he seems to infantilize you, which yeah, sucks a lot. Will stay glued to your side in public, worried that you'll get into trouble from naivety.

❤️ Watches you for signs of getting overwhelmed and may even try to persuade you to stop going out so much if it produces a lot of stress.

❤️ You'll have to convince him that the two of you can be sexual, because otherwise he'll not try to get intimate with you, believing that you don't want to or are too 'innocent' for that

❤️ May not hide so much of his bad qualities as he'll believe that you won't understand or notice