“What is with your pets and this backwards resistance pressure thing when they cuddle? Is it because you’re autistic?”

— A live-in caregiver after noticing that both my dog and cat did this to her if she let them sleep on her bed. Although I think it’s really their individual preferences. Billie Jean used to do it so strongly she could push me off the bed, which was impressive for a thirty pound dog. But both of them loved to lie back to back with me and really press their weight into my back. Fey was doing it to my arm when I started writing this.