Distracting Myself with Memes While I Wait for an Autism Diagnosis.

Extra Holly
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…

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Extra Holly

Internet enthusiast. Very into my dog and learning new things. Overthinker, pattern-recognizer. Late-dx neuroqueer.