:: Like so many autistic adults who are diagnosed later in life, my past clicked into focus once I was diagnosed. All of my awkwardness that led to bullying and more—I didn’t realize how much I blamed myself for those things. Why couldn’t I have been stronger? What was wrong with me? I didn’t realize that I never had a chance because I never received support.

:: Coming out from under a crushing deadline doesn’t mean you’re going to be happy. It can mean the opposite.

:: I can laugh about it now, but I have never forgotten how it felt to have sent an email with the intent to make the world a better place, to have received praise in private, and then to have been humiliated in public. 

:: In 24 hours, the truth was before us, a truth that had probably been there all along. Sometimes things just die.