The reverse-self-discovery process of receiving an adult diagnosis is bizarre. It’s a strange thing to read a profile, a list of traits and characteristics, and most powerfully, explanations of how they will play out in real life—only to find that you’re actually looking in a rearview mirror and seeing the infinite moments and memories on the road behind. As if, all along the way, from childhood through this very moment, you’ve been navigating life at the whim of an unseen Autism Conductor.
