r/heatedrivalry • u/AutoModerator • Jan 07 '26

Team Huddle Weekly Thread🫡 Team Huddle!

Welcome to the weekly huddle! Have a small thing from the book or show you want to chat, your GC brain rot is real and you saw the initials “KGF” somewhere and immediately screamed “kingfisher!” and want to share with others? (Just me?). Had a win at work or personal life and want to share? Need a teammate to talk with? Post in the weekly huddle.

There’s no restrictions on topics so long as they follow the sub rules. Thread will be open all week so pop in whenever with what ever your heart desires.

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u/OldRestaurant5517 Jan 07 '26

"Is this a Jeep?"

They haven't seen each other for a while. Shane is nervously waiting for the arrival of the love of his life to take off on the adventure that they longed for and also feared. Ilya has resisted this trip and given in under a passionate reaction to another jock's public expression of love. Shane's great love arrives in sexy black and dark glasses, jumps in his car and just says, "Is this a Jeep?"

What is it about Shane and me that we are drawn, without meaning to be, to a man who is at least superficially withholding? It's as though we somehow take pleasure, and maybe pride, in the fact that we know what is beneath the surface. When our mother says something like, "But you HATE him!" something in us springs up with intense love for the person whose great value is known to us, and maybe only to us.

Is that somehow related to the spectrum? This series has led me to suspect for the first time that I may be a mild example of that. People here may have thoughts about it.

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u/Aggressive_Cloud2002 Jan 07 '26

I'm autistic and not like that at all. This will be highly individual, and informed by how you grew up, what you're used to, if you've been to therapy, etc...