I carried this sense with me throughout my life that I was different to everybody else and that was unshakable. As I walked my brain was putting things together like it kept throwing up a fence in my life or responses that I've made or feelings that I'd had. If I hadn't have gone out on walk I don't think I'd have come to the realization that I was autistic. There is a profound mismatch in the way we talk about autism and how autism feels if you are autistic. The minute that I heard someone talk about what it felt like to be autistic I was like that's it that's me.
We're in between seasons of How We Live Now and Katherine is in the midst of talking about her new book Enchantment in radio and podcast interviews. We wanted to share one of these conversations with you in the How We Live Now podcast feed.
In this episode of The Shift with Sam Baker, Sam and Katherine talk about Katherine’s midlife autism diagnosis, why she believes we’re living through the burnout decade and how to wrest back control of our lives from our work.
Find all the episodes of the The Shift with Sam Baker here: https://podfollow.com/the-shift-on-life-after-40-with-sam-baker
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