My Journey with Autism
One day I came up to the man who was with the boy and I asked him if the boy was autistic. And when he said yes, I told him that I am also autistic and that I was actually more lower functioning when I was little. I also told him that I have difficulty expressing myself verbally and he said I was doing a good job expressing myself at that moment. When it comes to sensory issues, I am sensitive to loud noises and heat
You. Hey, good morning. Mitchell. My name is Aaron. I'm 32. I'm from New York. I have autism as well, high functioning as well. But I did not get diagnosed until I was 26. So until I was 26, I went my whole life without knowing I had autism at all, because I guess I was just super good at covering it up. But I feel you
You know, you said had you were not diagnosed with autism until you're twenty s and you believe that it may have been because you were good at covering it up. That had something called masking. It's a term in the autistic community where you try to present yourself as more neurotypical and try to you adopt more neurotypical behaviors like making more ahai kahahan Taham. I found some research behind the head women. Autistic women are her often under diagnostic more often that worldwide
You just have to fill out an application, which you'll totally be approved for, because I'm one of the administrators, and it's a really great way to make friends with autism, because it's really it's it's not necessarily support all the time. It's really there just to be with friends and have fun and have people to talk to. And you don't have to talk verbally. You can just type it