So You’re Autistic, Now What?

I remember the person testing me, asking if I felt different

MentalDessert
3 min readSep 18, 2022

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When I first started testing for Autism, there was a part of me that didn’t want to know. Maybe I could fall back on instead of my brain is different from everyone else I could just be weird. But I knew being diagnosed with PTSD made it easier to have a dialogue about why I wasn’t okay with certain things. And be…

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MentalDessert

I'm unapologetically me with a hard edged view of life. I love to travel and have crazy amounts of fun spaced between quiet moments.