Commentary: I was diagnosed with autism at 33. Here is why autism diagnostic tests leave females behind.
by Aspen Matis, Chicago Tribune
Apr 28, 2023
4 minutes
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When I was 10, sitting around a picnic table with a bunch of girls from camp, I made a mistake. They were laughing, all making fun of Linda, one of our counselors. Though I didn’t get the jokes, I mimicked their laughter. When Linda walked up to us, I immediately told her what everyone had been saying. I assumed she’d find it funny, too. But she didn’t smile. And the girls became upset and refused to talk to me for the rest of the summer.
I didn’t understand what I’d done wrong.
Throughout adolescence, I did my best to mirror
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