I spent half of my grade school career in the special classes. I would be diagnosed with autism spectrum under the current guidelines.
Today, I’m a little socially awkward but professionally successful, married and raising kids. All of whom are more “normal” than I.
>>Today, I’m a little socially awkward but professionally successful, married and raising kids. All of whom are more “normal” than I.
Same here. I never got put in special classes until I was recognized as “gifted”. I can’t imagine my life would have turned out better if I had been told that I was broken from my earliest memory. I sure wouldn’t have tried so hard to overcome my social challenges and anxieties if I had been told that I had an excuse for them.