At 28, I Taught Myself to Be Likable. Here's How I Did It (Part 1)

My tips for pretending to seem like a fully functioning person when you have a weird brain.

I wrote a little about my lifelong difficulties making friends here, but I’ll give you a quick rundown: basically, I don’t have diagnosed autism (I actually don’t think I have autism at all) but I do have ADHD and OCD, and was raised in a fairly “quirky” family where the most important trait to have was the ability to make people laugh. As a result, I g…