220. Why So Many Women Don’t Know They are Autistic with Katherine May
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The Myth of Being Autistic
Autistic people are very unfeeling and that we don't have emotions at all. If you talk to autistic people they'll say they're feeling everything, it's because I often like we're totally overwhelmed by the sheer Weight of what's coming at us. There's a bit in electricity that I write about being 14 and a party when I realized that I was seeing lines running between All the different people in the party who were kind of color coded According to how people felt about each other. And so I started telling them I was like I can see a line between you two like do not do this Love people who are different and explaining things in a different way Famously accepting of that
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