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[apuckalypse]

then what is it? what did he do that was wrong

[notapancake]

Everything.

[apuckalypse]

thats a BS answer and you know it

[notapancake]

Or it's the truth, and you just can't accept it. If he knew what he was doing there would have been some results.

[apuckalypse]

hes your past self. you really hate him that much?

[Not even a single ounce of credit, for all that work...]

[notapancake]

If I hated him, I wouldn't give him any thoughts, Junior.

[He refuses to give any credit to a research stealing little punk!]

[apuckalypse]

[That... makes Casey pause, because it's very much a thought he'd had about Donnie himself not too long ago, but from the opposite perspective. Donnie claimed to not hate him, and Casey doubted it for long enough until it occurred to him that maybe it was true, there was no hate, he just... didn't think anything of Casey at all.

But that was when Casey had been seemingly very easy to ignore the whole existence of. That isn't this.]

if you dont think of him at all why do you keep antagonizing him

[notapancake]

[Oh boy, wrong question, Junior.]

All I've tried to do is talk to him. He's the one who jumped off Never Fade, he's the one who decided it was the smart thing to bring up stealing and claiming my research as his own. I'm simply meeting his energy with what he's been putting out.

[apuckalypse]

he jumped off never fade??

[what the fuck has been happening between these two.]

[notapancake]

Yes, when all I was trying to do was talk to him.

[Leaving out that he kind of went off Never Fade with Donnie.]

[apuckalypse]

did he say why?

[Even for Donnie that is. A weird choice.]

[notapancake]

No. Mostly it was yelling at me for going over with him.

[apuckalypse]

why are you both so bad at this

[notapancake]

Well there's the poor socialization in our youth, and the autism. Definitely the autism.

[apuckalypse]

[yeah about that.]

the autism you never told me about

[notapancake]

I didn't? I'm pretty sure I did... Or someone else did?

[apuckalypse]

no one! no one did! not a single person in 15 years
donnie told me and i didnt even know what it WAS

[notapancake]

Oh.

[Cause what can he say? "Sorry the apocalypse kind of put a damper on that"?]

[apuckalypse]

["Oh", he says. Oh! Casey wants to throw himself out a window.]

im not mad for the record
not like you HAD to tell me or anything
just
idk
it feels important?
but i know lots of important things were shelved in our world
im sorry

[notapancake]

[???]

What are you sorry for? You didn't do anything wrong.

[apuckalypse]

[both of them... seriously...

(it was at that moment Casey realized he truly does apologize too much)]

i know i didn't
im saying it sucks you couldnt be yourself

[notapancake]

[Ouuugh boy, how to explain this? Without Casey thinking it's his fault?]

A lot of us had to change because of the war, Junior. Some things just aren't viable in that kind of world.

[One can't be all... Donnie about stuff when there are more important things to worry about.]

[apuckalypse]

i get that. i mean i see it every day now
all the stuff we have here that id never seen before, everything you guys talked about missing
it was the life we lived & nothing can change that but we can still say it sucked now u know?

well i know now and everything is viable bc theres no war anymore. what should i know? what would u have told me

[notapancake]

[Hrm, hrm, hrm. Well...]

What did Donatello tell you? I'd hate to repeat things you have been told by him.

[apuckalypse]

[Casey sends a cropped screenshot of the explanation he was given at the time:]

"Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition. It affects the way someone interacts and communicates socially. ...there's a lot more to it, but that's the characteristic most applicable to the topic at hand."

thats what he said
& that he has trouble with tones and social cues
and probably low empathy
that its like having different operating systems
& isnt a thing that can be cured or would go away over time

i didnt get why we never had the same problems as he and i
is it bc you cared about me and he didnt? and i just dont remember when we couldnt get along bc i was too young?