Someone sent this to me a while back & I’ve only just got around to looking at it. (ADHD) Rang a lot of bells, & is no doubt another factor is late diagnosis. #ActualyAutistic@actuallyautistic
"Can be very passionate about a course of study or job, and then change direction or go completely cold on it very quickly"
My bachelor degree in computer engineering, my master's in South Asia studies and my Ph.D. in Religion are laughing right now, whereas my current job tutoring in math is crying.
In the world of "it's all genetics". My father literally had a generalists degree for his first.
How I wished that was still a thing when I went to school! I instead majored it "how to fake it for the norms". AKA: theatre.
@actuallyautistic#actualyautistic How do y’all deal with people who say that autism doesn’t even exist, and that it “suddenly” cropped up over the past few generations because people have been “mentally coddled”? Somewhat in the same vein as “there is a diagnosis epidemic” but much more extreme.