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Do any of your characters have disabilities? Can you relate to them on some level?

Zoe, like me, has some arithmomania. For example, she counts her steps: from bed to bathroom, from car to building entrance, from desk to breakroom. Most often it's a repeating eight-count. PTSD has made it worse.

Haley, like me, has an auditory processing disorder. If you want her (or me) to grasp anything, put it in writing. Do not offer either of us an instructional video. 
 @3b678e16 Gosh, there is a name for that? My mother does this with everything, even things she always does in the bathroom. I don't, except for stairs in a staircase I climb, but also, I grew up with it, so never registered it as something which could be a thing. I found it a lovable something, not something that ever struck me as odd or even had a name.🥰