But You Don’t Look Autistic at All (Bianca Toeps’ Books)

by Bianca Toeps

While one autistic person builds Eiffel towers, the other one struggles to fit in at work. Just as complicated most of the time, but a lot less visible. Maybe that is my talent: to appear normal. I’ve gotten pretty good at it by now, if I say so myself.

As an autistic, I often feel forced to code-switch, to switch between two different types of behaviour: my own and that which is socially desirable.

One of the reasons girls often get diagnosed late, is that parents and doctors don’t perceive a girl who knows everything about horses as autistic. They mainly find it cute.

How autistic someone looks doesn’t say much about how autistic someone is.