The Worst Part About Being Autistic

MJ Santos
2 min readSep 9, 2020
Photo by Etienne Boulanger on Unsplash

The most challenging aspect of being neurodiverse is explaining it to others who are not.

In my experience, people fall into two categories. They either have a negative view of autism as a profound disability or think we’re all geniuses.

Therefore, when I reveal myself as being on the spectrum, they can’t believe it. I don’t have any obvious “glitches” (at least until you know…

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MJ Santos

Trying to improve or at least distract the world one story at a time. 🏳️‍🌈Autistic immigrant in 🇵🇹