Almost every neurodiverse person I’ve spoken to for this book shared that discovering they were Autistic was a powerful aha moment, one that prompted them to rethink every narrative they’d believed about who they were. Painful labels they’d carried around inside themselves for years suddenly didn’t seem as relevant: it wasn’t that they were stupid, or clueless, or lazy, they were just disabled. It wasn’t that their efforts had never been enough, or that they were fundamentally wrong or bad. They simply hadn’t been treated with the compassion they deserved, or given the tools that would have
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