for three years I was just the weirdo with a brain injury that makes no sense to anyone. Then I found out I'm autistic - always have been but had no clue. So now I'm figuring out how to be autistic, rather than how to be brain damaged. And there is a bit more useful information/help out there.
I've counselled many hundreds of people on the autism spectrum.
Many were "high functioning", many had a specific set of talents, some were not at all high functioning, and all of them had social struggles.
Every single one of them was valuable to their community and deserved to be treated with more dignity than people gave them.
You are just "wired differently", able to see things differently. And Diversity is what has and what will save the human race.
If I were to give advice it would be: Instead of trying to be good at things that you're not good at (schools want this), build on the things you can do.
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