Not Another First Time Story

Rom-Coms Made Me a Stalker

As an autistic kid in a small town, I creeped out my very first crush

Seph Hallow
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readSep 28, 2018

--

Photo: Donald Iain Smith/Moment/Getty Images

“W“Whether a gesture is alarming or charming depends on how it’s received.” Ted Mosby delivered this sage advice in the last season of How I Met Your Mother, about 15 years too late by my timing. It’s known as the “Dobler/Dahmer…

--

--