The book is Strong Female Character by Fern Brady. There have been several occasions in the past year where friends have asked me if I was autistic and my answer was typically, "probably not." I knew I shared certain traits with autistic friends but I thought it had to do with my anxiety problems.
For me lurking on ADHD sub-reddits. I noticed a few people were giving advice that worked so well or made so much sense, that I looked at their profiles and saw they were heavy in autism communities.
Then I watched this 5 minute video and cried for 3 hours at how fucking seen I felt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTzUbe5hoI8
For me it was Look Me In The Eye by John Elder Robinson:
He led a very different life from me and yet I related to aspects pretty easily.
Fern Brady was such an awesome contestant on Taskmaster. Crazy accent I gotta say though. Might have to check out the book.
I made one autistic friend with a sensitivity profile similar to my own, then lived with a father & daughter (both diagnosed) with a very different profile to my own, and thru that realized that in certain ways, all of us were like peas in a pod. And then I realized many of my friends are in the same orbit.
Several friends are neuro-spicy. Describing my perspective of things often got a response of how that similar to masking behaviors, or just outright "one of us." But of course i was like, no everyone's like that. Then i started going to therapy for other reasons, and therapist is like, "you have a lot of markers for adult add, would you like to do an assessment?" Yall ive been rawdogging add my whole life.
I keep having this feeling of “this ADHD/autism/asshole thing is so relatable” and dreading the day I finally spin the wheel and see where I actually land.
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