I will be 78 in a few days. Nobody knows much about ASD here. There is a great confusion among psychiatrists and psychologists (matter of fact the formers live in a jumble of psycho-schools and are substantially self taught and the others, are attached to some “master” who helped them to entering some area to work or earn their living.
I started talking around age four. And I lived all my life alone, even when I was in the family. Never married, never had a stable relationship with women or men, though being “straight” and “anatomically” a male. I earned a living with enormous effort. Being the son of an influential man, I found protection of which I was myself unaware. Having discovered at the end of my life this hidden background of a very modest success in economic and professional survival I feel like the husband that discovered after decades of marriage that his wife has always been infidel and that their interaction has been a constant pretence, voluntary by the wife, involuntary and vain by the husband. The past must be all erased, authenticity may be for the epilogue.
