Yes, I also found pairing exhausting. The hardest, most tiring, most-pointless pairing I participated in was with a diagnosed autistic. He was very clever; but

Yes, I also found pairing exhausting. The hardest, most tiring, most-pointless pairing I participated in was with a diagnosed autistic. He was very clever; but I couldn't understand the code he wrote, and he couldn't explain what he was doing. And a lot of the code he wrote, I gradually discovered, wasn't actually helpful for the task.