“I’ll look at everything on the menu online,” she says, “and figure out what I can eat that is not going to make my anorexia or sensory issues freak out. I’ll also practice ordering it out loud, especially if the name for the dish is in another language, and I don’t know how to pronounce it.” I don’t know any neurotypical people who sit at home googling how to pronounce words like bouillabaisse or injera so they don’t seem “weird” at a restaurant. But for Autistics, this level of scripting and pre-planning is normal.

— Unmasking Autism by Devon Price (Page 163)