When i was in Year Ten, I did really well in Japanese, and my father was proud and told a work colleague of his, who was from the former Yugoslavia. He said, "Get him to come down here. He can speak Japanese to me, and I'll speak Yugoslav to him." On a simple level, you might have thought, "How could you understand each other?" But what he meant was, "He can me some Yugoslav and I can teach him some Japanese."

Autistic and neurotypical communication is almost like one person who is Finnish and one who is Japanese speaking to each other in their own languages without an interpreter.