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McSweeney's
@mcsweeneys.net

YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY: A new column about being diagnosed with autism at 41. "Sometimes, even as an adult with a million reasons why you don’t feel quite put together, you can be seen and beheld, unmasked and unhidden, and still walk away without shame." buff.ly/VSUMqCP

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Joqatana
@joqatana.bsky.social

And then I wasted five years of my life on my Disability case. Which I lost. So basically getting my diagnosis caused 9 years of homelessness rather than my settlement paying the rent. Why? I made my advocates uncomfortable.