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getting older when you’re autistic is finding a video of yourself when you were 8 and wondering how the fuck you weren’t already diagnosed
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Anonymous 1w

I was my parent’s first child and they thought I was normal because they didn’t have a reference for a NT child. My sister came along after me and she’s NT, so they eventually caught on that something was up with me lol

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Anonymous 6d

Finding pictures of me as a kid with all my dinosaurs and my sea shells and rocks set up to create a great valley vibes with all my fake plants for trees and bushes and modeling scenes and setting up all my dinosaurs like they’re acting out a storyline but nothing is allowed to be touched or moved.

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Anonymous 5d

Me with my littlest pet shop toys set up in a very specific way and with all of my blankets having to be in a certain order 😂

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 6d

i knew each country and its correspondingly capital(s) by the age of 8 and somehow, i wasn’t clinically diagnosed until i was nearly 20

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