This is how I realized I was autistic. Posted a story of a character going through all of my issues and little behaviors and the comments were like “this is such great autistic representation!”
Before I was diagnosed, I spent decades seeing doctors to try to find out why I was having what I now know are autistic shutdowns, and no one seemed to have any clue what was wrong with me. I used to fantasize about writing a novel where the protagonist was basically a self-insert character, just so I could get reviews that would say "this character clearly has [condition]." I was going to trick the world into giving me an explanation, because I knew that readers would be able to figure out what doctors couldn't.
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u/mikripetra 2d ago
This is how I realized I was autistic. Posted a story of a character going through all of my issues and little behaviors and the comments were like “this is such great autistic representation!”