Quotes from an article about getting an autism diagnosis: Autism at 60 As someone who makes multiple lists daily, I'm also permanently worried things won't go as planned. I over-prepare and get stressed trying to recall the entire contents of a book I've read for a three-minute interview. The pandemic, as for many, caused hairline cracks within my psyche to deepen measurements show that oxytocin inhibits the random, noisy firing of nerve cells , thus allowing the neural signals of actual odours to stand out more prominently. I'm still processing it all but no longer view myself as broken . I am simply wired differently . And that's OK. -- 👊💣