Meet My Autistic Brain How to Be Autistic: What's Next After Diagnosis?
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Sep 8, 2025 
Rachel Morgan-Trimmer, neurodiversity consultant, trainer, TEDx speaker and author of How to Be Autistic, guides adults after an autism diagnosis. She explores sensory shifts, masking-related fatigue, and learning to advocate for needs. Rachel shares social strategies, reframing past struggles, building autistic identity, and finding pride and authenticity.
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Autism As Inherent Difference
- Rachel describes autism as an intrinsic, all-the-way-through trait like words in a stick of rock.
- She mainly views it as difference and minority status that society disables rather than an internal defect.
Unpack Past Baggage Deliberately
- Unpack negative labels and past treatment by reinterpreting words like 'weird' as neutral or positive.
- Reassess self-criticism and recognize you did the best with the resources you had then.
Work Enabled Open Identity Shift
- Rachel is privileged that her work lets her be open about autism and self-advocate without heavy judgment.
- She still struggles to integrate a new identity after decades living as the person she thought she was.
