My diagnosis was a life-changing moment—for my folks. As for me, well, I was five years old. I just wanted to get out of there and rent Walking with Dinosaurs from the library, not listen to this doctor who was saying things I couldn’t really comprehend. In hindsight, I wish I had been more grateful. That diagnosis would end up helping me more than I could’ve imagined. It was going to help me navigate school, and understand myself, and eventually figure out my place in the world. So it was a life-changing
This is why diagnosis and early interventio is sooo important. Livi ng without supports gives you a different, harder version of life.
