@dpnash @Zumbador @actuallyautistic
I’m in my mid-sixties and I had mostly simply never heard of it. People were just R-worded back then, and as the term came to more common use, it just missed me, never came up.
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Should have, if my family had dealt with me, I guess.

@punishmenthurts

My autism presents opposite to that. I have hyperlexia, taught myself to read by the time I was 3 or 4, was reading at an adult level by the time I was in 3rd grade. My school records all say I didn't perform to the level they expected.
I have a lifetime of being a disappointment.

@dpnash@neurodifferent.me @Zumbador @actuallyautistic

@ScottSoCal @dpnash @Zumbador @actuallyautistic
I’m good with letters too, less so with numbers. I never heard the R-word about myself.
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I’m actually looking at my report cards now, it was half about speech and numbers trouble early, then became what you say, a lot of, “if only he’d apply himself.”