Often I feel the need to explain a lot of my quirks but then I get anxious because I don't know how others will react. Will they start treating me like a baby or a monster? Or will they misread my disclosure as an excuse? Another layer of context is my physical appearance, I'm a 5'10,  300lb young black man and I already struggle with feeling like my existence alone offends some people. I've been told I intimidate people or that my natural hair is "wild" when it's just a curly 'fro you'd find on any unkempt zoomer. I'd rather not be labeled as a crazy/bipolar black man because it's hard enough being man that happens to be black.