Integrating Into An Autistic Life, Part Two

Before we can integrate, we must shed.

Artwork: Gilbert Williams

We can’t talk about integration unless we discuss shedding.

A snake must shed its skin in order to evolve, and so must we all.

So the next portion of my memoir excerpt goes into just that: the identities that we developed over our lifetime of being undiagnosed autistic, the ways in which we felt like we were ‘wrong’ or ‘broken’ …