My husband and I have been watching The Traitors together. In previous years he has watched them on his own and I’ve watched the odd episode with him. It is nice watching them together though.

There was one character, ha! These are “real” people, not characters in a story. Well, nearly real people.

Anyway there was this one person called Dan who early on came out as autistic. I was already a little curious in him because he was like me relatable to me he was also slightly cute. Cuteness is always a factor, I’m afraid.

When he told everybody in the chair that he was autistic I hope that my husband would pay attention because he seemed only slightly awkward, he seemed “normal” as you might say. He had had a late diagnosis, although he is still quarter of a century younger than me!

I hope that my husband was see this person and recognize something is of me in him.

I actually felt very upset the my husband said that he didn’t like him because he seemed cold.

To me, Dan seemed quite likable but also quite rational. The others in the castle to me appeared to be quite hypocritical: bodies and to be devastated that any one of them could be a traitor, yet they each entered into this knowing that it was again and that they, or anybody, could be traitors – and that the nature of the game meant that their best friend, well – their best “holiday friend”, could be lying to them.

It wouldn’t be much of a TV programme if the traitors were completely honest now, would it?

Despite the castle knowing that he was autistic, it seemed to me that they voted him out because he was just that little bit too odd for their tastes.

A flight from not liking than because he seemed cold, I’m wondering what else my husband made of him? Did he relate any of this fellow to me and the way I am?

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So I asked my husband what he thought about Dan from The Traitors: he didn’t remember him, so I’ll not be able to answer my own question!