Is There a Disruption in Your Identity With Autistic People?

I know from having read a media article, you were recently diagnosed with autism. And what I wonder, one what that does for your sense of identity, particularly this late in life and clearly like my perceptions of autism are off because I would never just in a million years that you would be anywhere near on the spectrum. There's a great paper by a sociologist named Catherine tan that studied the effects on identity of late diagnosed autistic people. It gives you an opportunity to shine a new light so the illumination part on the whole rest of your life.