In my head the narrative was there to keep me 'fitting in' 'you need to be ' ' you need to do ' . You should do this or that. You shouldn't do that or not one will like you. Mostly from my wonderful mum who adopted me. She did it she got me so I could be and do all that and because of these wonderful brains we have I've achieved done and contributed loads, still do still work 2 days. Have great kids and grand kids.
But great joy I don't have to be anything but me now and that's happened since I semi retired probably why I finally got autistic spectrum diagnosis at 70 which fitted the jigsaw puzzle in such a relief really
Does anyone else feel freed by finally knowing its autism that makes u unique?
