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One time I was telling my mum I planned to go to Marseille, and she said oh e-mail this person! It was a young Algerian French person she had met while we were backpacking in northern Thailand, you were off doing whatever and I was talking to this group of people. I emailed this person and he was like omg I remember your mum please come and stay in my spare bedroom in Marseille!

For context, my mum speaks English but it’s not her first language, but she somehow manages to just make friends across all backgrounds. I’ve always found that impressive about her. As a young autistic person I struggled a lot with social skills early on, so if you can’t see it at all, a lot of it was just ‘be like mum’