Untypical: How the world isn’t built for autistic people and what we should all do about it

by Pete Wharmby

I’ve had many meltdowns in my life. Some in public, all of which I remember with an overwhelming yet unreasonable sense of shame, and many in private. For many years I’d no idea what they were, nor what caused them – I assumed they were simply tantrums, and that I had a bad temper or was particularly childish