I kinda discovered autism on Monday.
Since then it has become my specialist subject (typical) so I've read up and my brain has processed and recalibrated my life. This plays out a bit like the space-time continuum catching up with itself.
I am now convinced I've been blessed to have teachers (when a child) and managers (as an adult) who have kindly stepped in and made things easier for me knowing I am "a bit different" without actually pointing it out to me,
Most of them are long gone now. I didn't know at the time, seems very obvious to me now, Just like making allowances, stuff like that. I'd like to thank them, but I also wish I'd known it was something that showed from the outside. I thought I'd covered it up pretty well.