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Autism Acceptance Month 2014: Nick Mediati

This month we’re asking our autistic community members What Do You Want? What Do You Need? We’re featuring their answers all April long, right here. Today we’re having a conversation with technology journalist Nick Mediati. Please read, listen, and share. What are some things you like people to know about you? I’m a freelance editor and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, focused primarily on technology journalism. I’m a fairly new member of the autism community, having received an official diagnosis last December, but my discovery process was years in the making. I first learned about Asperger Syndrome when I was in college, and it instantly resonated with me.But at the same time, I remember thinking, “That isn’t really me, is it?” But as I learned more about autism beyond the Wikipedia entry, and learned about all the different ways it can manifest itself, the more I realized…