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Things I have misheard or misunderstood because I am #ActuallyAutistic:

1. When I first came to the U.S., I thought ‘paid vacation’ was when employers pay you to take a vacation. Like they give you extra money on top of your salary to go on a trip.

(That’s sort of how it works many places. But here in the U.S., it just means you can take a vacation, and still get paid, instead of if you go away you no longer have a job, which is the default otherwise, especially in service jobs)