An autistic woman who’s weary of listening to her colleagues’ exhausting-sounding weekends has optimistically tried to coin the phrase ‘indoorsy person’, sources have said.

Simran Khalsa, 33, whose idea of an exciting weekend involves looking out of a different pane of her living room window, reportedly wants to rebrand her quieter approach to life in a more positive light. 

“I’m pretty sure that I can make my weekends sound great if I give them a bit of linguistic spin,” Khalsa told us from inside her blanket fort. “I had to create a new word because all the existing ones weren’t quite right. For instance, when you think of ‘outgoing’ it’s all parties or paddleboarding, whereas ‘ingoing’ sounds like an awkward euphemism for a 19th century lesbian.”

Khalsa’s colleague Becky Armitage, 34, whose idea of a quiet afternoon is a Tough Mudder Challenge, was more skeptical. “Listen, we’re all a little bit ‘indoorsy’, aren’t we? We’re all somewhere on the ‘doorsy’ spectrum. I just don’t think we need a special term for it.”

Armitage added: “By the way, a few of us are going for drinks and an escape room after work, wanna come? Don’t pull that face, Simran: you’d like it if you tried it!”

Khalsa could not be reached for further comment as she had stapled shut her blanket fort and was refusing to come out.

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