I worked with somebody whose brain just didn't brain with mine. anything she wrote was unreadable to me, and anything I wrote was not "simple" or "understandable" enough.
Look at the biased way you write about the situation. This is the fundamental attribution error. If you can't read her code, it's her fault (you implied that). And if she can't read your code, it's also her fault (you implied that).
I said it was unreadable to me. I meant what I wrote. I did not imply it was her fault. it was presumably readable to others in the team, just not to me. the only way I could figure out what was going on was by adding a lot of printf and running small parts of the code to work it out. the documentation really didn't tell me anything that I needed to know for that purpose.
the quotes represent words that she actually said. in the end I did re-write my code in a way that she would finally approve the review and now I can't read the code either.
she's diagnosed with autism. I'm diagnosed with autism. not only are we not neurotypical, but we're also so different that our code was mutually unintelligible.