It’s Hard to Find the Answer When You Don’t Even Know the Question

Extra Holly
3 min readNov 27, 2021

On not knowing you’re autistic until you’re 29.

Photo by Jurica Koletić on Unsplash

I’ve thought to myself time and time again: How did we not know? How did I not realize that I am neurodivergent?⁠ ⁠

It’s not that we wouldn’t have been able to get the answers… we weren’t even asking the right questions.⁠ ⁠ I thought that everyone else felt the same way that I…

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Extra Holly

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