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Is it normal to want to be normal?

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I'm newly diagnosed as autistic and part of me still wants to be "normal".......whatever normal is. Is this normal? Any advice from anyone feeling a similar way?

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  • I have had a life in the past where I have been told "Why can't you be normal like us?" and no matter how hard I tried and what I did, my greatest efforts were never enough! 

     Eventually, somewhere around my mid  30's I reached the point in my life when I said to myself "Stuff everyone else. I am me!" and " If they don't like it, tough! "  

    It was very liberating... for a while...

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  • I have had a life in the past where I have been told "Why can't you be normal like us?" and no matter how hard I tried and what I did, my greatest efforts were never enough! 

     Eventually, somewhere around my mid  30's I reached the point in my life when I said to myself "Stuff everyone else. I am me!" and " If they don't like it, tough! "  

    It was very liberating... for a while...

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