Ok, now bear with me, because I need to put some context behind that title statement. For those of you who don’t know, I used to be an ASD specialist teacher until I stopped teaching in 2012. So, I already knew that for people on the autism spectrum, the effort needed to ‘appear normal’ is intense and when life is stressful autistic traits are more visible to others. But, I have never noticed this within myself with such clarity until now.
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