When my wife and I are driving (anywhere) and we see a dog we excitedly point “DOG!” and then talk about how cute / good the dog looks. Or if I’m on my own I’ll come back and say “I saw a dog when I was driving” and a similar conversation. I thought everyone did this.

Holy crap this is such a good and well written set of articles. I can’t speak to the accuracy of everything, though it seems to have been researched and written with accurate intent, but the parts that I live are spot on. Lots of little cool details in there. Shoutout to the thing autistics often do where we redefine terms on the fly in a conversation so we’re sure our message is communicated correctly, like “X can mean a few different things, so I’ll say Y when I mean thing 1 and Z when I mean thing 2”, which reminded me of some Flying Circus sketch where they awkwardly created a overt double hand spin gesture to indicate that they were done talking and it’s the other person’s turn to talk and not just the end of their sentence.