@carriem.co.uk, you certainly were ahead of the curve - thanks again for the invite, way-back-when! Just took me the better part of a year to go through the 5 stages of grief at the thought of learning how to use another social media platform... 🤣

😊🖤 Thanks so much, so glad you enjoyed it!!

-- and then I receive wonderfully kind messages from readers thanking me for 'the autistic representation'... Gives one something to think about. 😂

Which is to say, at the time, I didn't intentionally write Mary as autistic - but if I'm autistic (and I probably am), then she is, too. :)

If it isn't too late to reply, 9 months late... 😅

I've never been formally assessed/DX'ed/etc as autistic myself, but there's this funny thing that keeps happening to me, wherein I write characters whom I find very relatable, and who think in similar ways to myself --

😭🖤 Thank you so very much!!