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How Pandemic Isolation Allowed Me to Better Understand My Autism
My official diagnosis came late, at 20. But for all my life I had known that I was different. I was not surprised in the slightest. It came at a hard time, though. It was during the spring of the first wave of the pandemic. 2020. At this point, we had been pretty isolated for a couple of months already, and to be honest, I wasn’t too bothered by that. I had come home from college where I had had a semester of disaster and struggle which can now be attributed to my undiagnosed autism. I was happy to be in my room alone, minding my business and watching YouTube to my heart’s content.