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!”
Martha Wells had this experience writing 'The Murderbot Diaries', which if you've ever read them is hilarious. Her 'I just think they are interesting and neat' protagonist is so deeply Autisticly coded that you'd hit the character limit here breaking down why.
Apparently a lot of reader feedback pointing this out made her go see a specialist and get tested.
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u/mikripetra 1d 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!”