It's fun to be wrong
I was wrong about myself. How fun it is to learn something new about me.
Neurodivergence
In Plain Sight: Invisible Neurodivergence
I find myself thinking a lot about how I grew up in an undiagnosed neurodivergent family. I've thought a lot about how that protected me growing up, and about how it didn't.
Understanding Autistic "Rigidity"
Maybe from the outside it looks like stubbornness, or like outbursts that come “out of nowhere”, but meltdowns and shutdowns usually happen after a long buildup of factors that are quite complex if you stop to think about it.
One diagnosis to rule them all
Everyone reacts to it differently, but when I got my autism diagnosis just 3 years ago I felt such a huge sense of relief.