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Autism

2026


Grieving the Version of Me Everyone Thought I Was

·11 mins

Sourcing Note: This article draws from my lived experience, current care situation, and a high school psychological/autism evaluation that documented the gap between my academic strengths and my adaptive support needs during the transition to adulthood.

The Grief of Being Misread #

There’s a kind of grief that doesn’t come from losing who you are. It comes from realizing that other people were never seeing all of who you were in the first place.