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Autism “it’s not a disease, it’s a different way of being”

Life Examined

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Is There a Right Way to Be Autistic?

"There's not one right way of being anything, especially in community with other people," he says. "You can know that you're autistic and then that's just enough for you." We want to feel like we are fully something or fully something else - but if we can't be it, how do we live our truth? 'I think I had to think, well, what is my relationship to this identity?' the writer asks.

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