A list of traits that people don’t realise are #ActuallyAutistic
<p>I wasn’t diagnosed as autistic until age 41 in 2021. What I thought was autism was the stereotype you see in the media of the non-speaking rocking and hand-flapping white boy, or the incorrect stereotypes such as Rainman (actually a savant), and the stereotypes I didn’t relate to such as the unempathetic and emotionless Dr Shaun Murphy in The Good Doctor.</p>
<p>I just didn’t see myself in any of these portrayals. I am a woman, I had friends, I had an excess of empathy, and I had a successful career as a people manager. I didn’t see myself in the media’s representations of autistic people, so it never crossed my mind that I might have been autistic. It also doesn’t help that many of the portrayals of autism in the media is how it <em>looks to neurotypical people</em>, not how it <em>feels to experience it as an autistic person</em>.</p>
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