I've been to this hospital. It's like any other acute ward. Normal people like everyone else, having a difficult time. It's not a secure forensic unit. Do they really think they'd put anyone dangerous near a school with a fence they could scale!?

Or treated for their unbalanced humors! It's like these people think people only started becoming depressed and psychotic mid 90s.

Amazing

Yup! Hate it when people start diagnosing people they've never met and who are long gone!

I'm kind of glad because I don't think i'd have achieved what I did if my Mum had known, as she probably wouldn't have pushed me so much. But i do wish i'd been diagnosed earlier, like 13, before I had to drop out of school.

So, while i think autistic people may find injustice harder, it's not that they have an 'innate sense' of it.

4. Rigid thinking - this is what's right and wrong, this is how the world should work etc.

5. Flexibility issues - might lead to less understanding if someone has done something perceived as wrong.

5. Obsessive thinking - not being able to let things go.

I think what we/they romanticise is what ideally could have happened. But we have to accept and acknowledge that actually, back then, and even now, what we imagine could have helped doesn't exist anyway.

Maybe you'd have got better support at school. But realistically none existed back then and it's still so hard to get now. I think sometimes we grieve a life we could have had as adult diagnoses, but the grass isn't necessarily greener. It's just different.

Especially for understanding yourself, needs, and mental health difficulties. But i'm not convinced that other people knowing you're autistic, especially as a child, makes a lot of difference when it comes to bullying. There's still stigma, especially at school when this author was around...

I hope he earns more from it than he paid to have it published.