Life with a Label – The Diary of an Autistic Girl
From Diagnosis Onwards…
What autistic gang are you in? Yes, I know that we are all working towards a peace-and-love version of the autistic community, where everyone gets on with everybody else and nobody minds that ONE person who corrects a grammatical error on the post you did about hypersensitivity. But as a category, Autism is a spectrum, …
A few days ago, I found myself reading a showbiz article about a celebrity who had recently been diagnosed as autistic. She isn’t hugely famous, and I wasn’t massively interested in the fact that she had been papped looking “trim” in yoga sweatpants. Nevertheless, out of loyalty to all things autie I ploughed through the …
Post Diagnosis:The Aftermath. Let’s start with some numbers, shall we? I like numbers and, contrary to popular autistic stereotypes, that is not because I enjoy or am good at maths. I just like the patterns that numbers can make. Looking back, perhaps my parents should have suspected that there was something autistic going on when, …
It’s official. Or rather, it became official on a dark evening in late February. The Harley Street psychiatrist, slightly grainy over Skype, shuffled his papers, sighed a little and said “Look, we could go on and on, but it is obvious that you are autistic”. A feeling that I always associated visually with melting …