Autistic

Selfie of Jean, a white woman with long medium-brown hair, smiling. Background: a body of water and a city skyline.

Jean’s Adult Diagnosis Story

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I am very grateful to have this new piece of information about myself. I don’t consider my diagnosis to be an answer to all my life’s problems, nor do I consider it to be a deficit. What I see it as is a new lens to see my behavior through.

Black-and-white photo of Anton Levey, a bald white man with a dark goatee, holding a snake. Meme-style text on the photo reads, "Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name!

I Don’t Know His Name, But His Face Rings a Bell

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My particular form of prosopagnosia (facial blindness) includes inability to recognize faces and names.  For example, every year I dreaded our family reunion and the inevitable awkwardness of seeing cousins and aunts and uncles and having no idea what their names were.

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