@ARunByFruiting Ok, she perhaps could have made more of an effort to thank you. Not everyone does handwritten notes these days - I would still send handwritten notes to certain family members but texts to friends - although I agree that ‘‘I’ll have to get your address’ probably was her asking for it.
I don’t think, however, most people would expect to help their friend navigate across London on the tube unless there was a specific reason, like being non-English speaking or knowing that they were a really nervous/inexperienced traveller. You’re in your forties - are you ok with technology? Google Maps will really tell you everything you need to know to navigate the tube, and tube maps are easy to use.
Some posters have noticed that you seem a bit inflexible in your thinking - this stood out to me too. Not seeing ‘I’ll have to get your address’ as actually being the request for your address really stands out to me. I say this because my brain can work that way too - I have ADHD, which can have traits which overlap with autism. When I was younger, I could be an extremely black-and-white thinker about what people said. I was actually pretty emotionally intuitive about people but I would get tied up in knots about the actual language they used and question my intuition.
Lots of people are quite slapdash/imprecise about the language they use - no criticism of others; we’ve all got different strengths and weaknesses - and this could cause problems for me with my language-focused brain. I can imagine teenage or even twenties me thinking ‘ah, she’s said that she’ll have to get my address. That means she’s busy now but she will ask for it in the future when she’s got time to send a thank you’. Now, I laugh a bit at my own ridiculousness in some situations, but at the same time I try to think kindly about my brain; the upside, of course, is that precision and detail focus can be a strength academically and professionally.
That’s my longwinded way of asking if you are, or think you might be, neurodivergent?