late diagnosis

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.

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