Illuminated: Autism & All The Things I’ve left Unsaid

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Rebekah Vardy 'is rushed to hospital after horror accident on her horse where she was dragged along the ground by her stirrup' I am someone who needs to physically count on their fingers to add two small numbers together – a far cry from the savant maths genius counting cards in Las Vegas. I am highly creative, not at all technical. That, and I bloody hate trains. I learned to mask my challenges to avoid judgment. I approached every new job, friendship or relationship with optimism – this fresh start would be different, and this time I would try harder and be able to blend in. This masking, extremely common among undiagnosed autistic people, worked for short periods of time but inevitably the pressure of hiding who I really was would become too much. There would be a catastrophe – usually a meltdown (an autistic reaction to overwhelm, which looks like a temper tantrum but is totally involuntary) – and I would be “found out”, fleeing the situation and burning bridges behind me. The TV presenter Melanie Sykes has announced she has been diagnosed as autistic at the age of 51, in 2021.

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However, once filming wrapped it was decided that the show must never see the light of day after it fell foul of TV gambling rules. The next day, scrolling through the links Dominique had sent me, everything fell into place. Reading clinical descriptions of autistic girls and women, I wondered if someone had been following me around with a notepad. The traits described were so wide and all-encompassing but so oddly specific. My whole life, I had believed I was so unique that there couldn’t possibly be anyone out there like me. Suddenly, a door had been opened to a previously hidden world of like-minded people. BBC and Sky scramble to make on-air apologies for broadcasting Dominic Cummings' expletive-filled Covid inquiry appearance uncensored (but furious viewers blast them for saying sorry while ex-No10 aide gave evidence) Friends stars break silence on Matthew Perry's death at 54: Group pay an emotional tribute: 'We're taking a moment to grieve and process this unfathomable loss' Robbie Williams, 49, claims he's going through 'manopause' as he battles 'thinning hair' and a 'reduced sex...