How My Life Got Better When I Stopped Trying to Be Normal

Tiny Buddha ·
Mind & Mental Health United States

For most of my life, I had a second full-time job. Nobody hired me for it. Nobody paid me. But it ate more hours than anything else I did. The job was pretending to be normal. I am autistic. Growing up, I didn’t always have that word for it, but I knew one thing for sure: I was different, and different was not safe. Kids let me know early. I got teased and picked on, and more than once someone…

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