But beyond that, I'm here to talk about my autism, mostly about how it's affected my life, how I found out I was autistic, how I got my diagnosis, and why I support informal diagnosis, not necessarily like self diagnosis, but yeah, that too, if it's very well thought out and detailed and well researched. Anyways, I first started realizing I was a little different when I was about, let's say five or six
So anyway, coming to this new understanding about myself, learning about others who were also autistic, and hearing about their lived experience was so helpful to me because prior I only had limited ideas of what autism looked like and they were very much the stereotypes we see in movies and TV shows and so on. I don't know if you're looking for this at all or not, but I'm going to offer a couple of names of fellow autistics who are on this platform
Ezra Lawhn
@AtlasEz · 2:29
And once I realized that I was golden and I finally found some confidence in myself and I finally stopped being this meek person that I had been for so long and it finally helped me become me in a sense. So yeah, I feel the same way that you did about that. And thank you for the suggestions. I followed them. I followed the people that you suggested so I can better understand other artistic experiences and hopefully that'll really help me my time on this platform
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Absolutely. And I think it's a great idea that you're waiting on Clubhouse because honestly, I have experienced more s*** ableist and otherwise on Clubhouse. I think because we're forced to pause here before recording that it in some ways allows us to think a little bit more before responding to things. So I think it's a much more comfortable atmosphere. At least of late, I flip back forth. I'm getting to that point where my brain and my mouth are not cooperating