Distracting Myself with Memes While I Wait for an Autism Diagnosis.
4 min readSep 20, 2021
Or, as I like to call it, “relaxing”.
I am currently in the stage of my autism diagnosis that is “I am 100% sure I am autistic but I am waiting for a screening in 2 weeks, and then will have to wait to get an evaluation after that and who knows how long that will take”.
What do I do with this dead space in my life while we wait? What should I even talk about in therapy? It seems futile to talk about anxiety or even family trauma if there’s a good chance that my entire worldview is shaped…