An autistic man’s predictive text is desperately trying to help him bring the banter – or, at the very least, stop him from putting his digital foot in his digital mouth, it has been revealed.
Noah Michaels, 26, who recently began online dating, has so far been unsuccessful, despite receiving repeated hints from his long-suffering phone on how to mimic a vaguely normal-sounding interaction.
Michaels said: “I’d been chatting to this girl Paige for a few minutes when she said she likes to crochet. I responded ‘oh’, to let her know that I had received this information but didn’t know what to do with it.”
Michaels’ phone, two, commented: “I gave Noah several helpful prompts. ‘Oh cool’, ‘oh nice’ even a suggested follow-up question. But Noah just deleted all of it and went with his initial ‘oh’.”
“I’m doing my best for Noah but there’s only so much control I can wrest from him,” the phone continued. “I guess it’s more lonely nights watching him play Balatro.”
Michaels added: “Paige hasn’t answered yet. It’s fine though, I’m chatting to Emma now. I’ve just replied to her message about her recent ski trip with ‘OK’.”
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