Those friends that are able to tastefully make fun of you without making you feel bad <3

That must have seemed an appropriate response to you. But I think it's a little over the top.

Still, you never know where people are in their emotional states of being. What they gave you provides a clue to what you might say to them in any future communications.

I think your reply to them was cute. ☺️

Just because you’re “autistic “ doesn’t mean you need to be childish

Sometimes retreating into a childish persona is stress relieving.

My daughter is a paleontologist......

Dinosaurs are cool