Hello! Thank you for playing ny games and your lovely comment!
auto forward is very buggy in Renpy its true and when try to force code it in it ends up being skipping :")
I think the hotkey is A or Tab but I'm in the hospital atm so can't check. Will Follow up later.
Alternatively I suppose the only other way is skipping with ctrl but I may be misinterprating your question > <
Also I have a new game in the works here if you want to check it out! Bewitching Sinners