An autistic woman has been left devastated after having watched a conversation galloping away from her before she felt able to contribute with a witty response, eyewitnesses have reported.
Miya Wilkes, 32, from Ormskirk, was far too busy planning the perfect moment to insert a joke about sausage dogs into an office conversation about miniature Daschunds – yet, to her dismay, the conversation started rolling away from her like a cheese wheel down a hill, rendering the carefully constructed one-liner she’d been building up to entirely irrelevant.
“Then we just started talking about work again. Can you believe it? After I sat in silence thinking of it for nearly seven-and-a-half minutes,” Wilkes commented. “And I was working so hard at preparing to interject, I completely ignored what everybody else was saying.”
“I constantly feel like a squirrel trying to get into a particularly pesky nut,” Wilkes told us. “Let me in, let me in!”
“Conversations moving on should always be decided as a group,” Wilkes concluded. “Hey, has anybody seen The Substance?”
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