I was more interested in playing Sonic the Hedgehog, trying to get along with friends, and falling in love with the works of Terry Pratchett in my school library. I didn’t care that much at the time of my diagnosis. Following an assessment, it came to light that I had a reading age of 18, but the professional opinion was that I wouldn’t be able to comprehend the contents of a fictional book. This led to a number of strange contradictions. The only unusual elements were that I engaged in imaginative play - an area that was supposed to be beyond my abilities - and that I wanted to engage with other people. I imagine that I was displaying most of the typical signs of autism: repetitive behavior, sensitivity to visual, audio, and tactile stimuli, narrow ranges of interest, and difficulties in understanding body language and the subtleties of social interaction. Considering that this diagnosis came about in the ’90s, it was an early diagnosis, compared to some of my peers’. I had a diagnosis of Asperger’s syndrome, or high functioning autism, when I was about 8 years old.
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