>can't maintain eye contact
>hyperfixates on tiny details
>dislikes sudden small changes
>has difficulty visualizing things in her head
>is sensitive to physical contact and doesn't like hugging her parents out of fear of hearing their stomachs growl and feeling their breath
>dislikes very specific sounds like balloons popping or the way her grandparents say 'celery'
>hates the sound of lotion and the feeling of it on her hands (her mom would rub lotion in car rides just to annoy her)
>struggles with Theory of Mind (realizing other people have a different set of information than you)
>ordered takeout because she didn't want what her mom was cooking and told her mom the takeout would taste better. then didn't understand why her mom was upset
>got stuck in a hotel elevator with someone, they got scared and started crying, she told them to stop crying and that she didn't understand why they were scared
>has an extreme obsession with whales and orcas specifically
>her parents behave similarly to her (autism is hereditary)
