when i was in highschool my friend's ex walked up to me in the hall and, 3 months after he dismissed himself from our friend group and instead played yugioh with the soccer team spares during lunch, handed me a tennis ball because he "wanted to see what i would do with it" and it is the kindest gesture a heterosexual has ever paid me
@oliver i am confused what your take-away is from this but i'm glad you see it as a kind gesture?!
[tangentially, i'm now imagining how i might have reacted had someone performed the same action to me in high school]
this is before i understood that im autistic and instead just thought i was a weird guy with a random compulsion to juggle things