10 Things You Didn’t Know About Autism

One year ago, at age 23, I went through a long process of speaking to various doctors and other strangers and filling out forms and questionnaires. After about a month, they diagnosed me with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). As a strongly empathetic and emotional person with “artsy” interests, I had gone through life thinking of autism as the disorder I could never have. After I understood what ASD meant, it became the disorder that explains 99.9 % of what went wrong in my life, and this realisation brought with it the start of a new and healthier section of my life.