Comes from being on the spectrum... well, and partially inherited. My mother actually diagnosed me, in the mid-late '50s, when just about nobody in the US was aware of this. (She didn't tell me. I figure she just didn't know whether it would be helpful or harmful to let me know. She did tell a friend of hers, who told her daughter, who t…
Comes from being on the spectrum... well, and partially inherited. My mother actually diagnosed me, in the mid-late '50s, when just about nobody in the US was aware of this. (She didn't tell me. I figure she just didn't know whether it would be helpful or harmful to let me know. She did tell a friend of hers, who told her daughter, who told me decades later, after reading a story I'd written that gave it away in the way I described my toddler self (unbeknownst to me, since I was unaware of it at that time).
Comes from being on the spectrum... well, and partially inherited. My mother actually diagnosed me, in the mid-late '50s, when just about nobody in the US was aware of this. (She didn't tell me. I figure she just didn't know whether it would be helpful or harmful to let me know. She did tell a friend of hers, who told her daughter, who told me decades later, after reading a story I'd written that gave it away in the way I described my toddler self (unbeknownst to me, since I was unaware of it at that time).
https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-home-forum/2020/0805/heeding-her-invitation-six-decades-later