Exploring Childhood Identity

The podcast delves into the author's personal experience of receiving an autism diagnosis as an adult and the subsequent reassessment of their childhood identity. They reflect on the shame and disruptive behavior associated with their undiagnosed neurodivergence and discuss the realization that the school system failed them. The author shares their journey towards self-compassion and reevaluation of their childhood through a cathartic short story titled 'The Catpiss Astronaut' as a means of understanding their unique perspective as a neurodivergent child in a neurotypical world.