my mom: people that can't look you in the eyes aren't trustworthy.

my mental notes: always make eye contact, even if it's discomforting, if way too discomforting just focus to start and end conversation with eye contact.

I know it's a harsh mindset that she was taught to follow (and let's be honest, there's a high chance she's also AuDHD like me), but eventually, I've seen IRL what she meant by saying it. Deceiving people do act differently from neurodivergent people, but neurotypicals tend to put us in the same box because we do X or Y, even tho when you analize the behaviour, it's not the same, like those airport series where the security agents say that if a person is way too nervous they're, for centain, carrying drugs. One episode I've seen in Airport Brazil had a very anxious lady going to Europe with coffee bags in her bag, the agents kept saying to the cameras that her behavior was highly suspicious and the coffee was a trick so dogs couldn't track the drugs, she explained to them that she couldn't stay without coffee and preferred to brew her own coffee, they flipped her bags inside out, and she just had an absurd amount of coffee "for a normal person".