In a recent alarming report, even though Christmas is over, your extended family is refusing to depart the premises.
Despite autistic people supposedly having a reputation for not cottoning on to social cues, it’s your neurotypical Aunt Alma currently missing multiple hints that her presence in your home is no longer required or welcome.
Regardless of you having tried everything, from mentioning “you’ll want to avoid the traffic” to “you could take these ginger biscuits back with you- like, right now” – nothing, so far, has worked.
In fact, you swear you overheard your mother whispering how “it might be nice to stay another night or two” during the closing titles of Minions: Rise of Gru.
“So I’m considering setting the place alight,” you admitted, defeated.
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