I ask: do you think I might be autistic? I ask it in the middle of Kacper’s assessment, in the middle of my own ADHD investigation, in the middle of a period when I am starting to understand that my brain works differently from how I thought. The screening result: 14 out of 20. “A good number of traits on the spectrum — a full assessment is worth considering.” The pattern in the answers is clear: high scores for thinking in systems, for looking at people as mechanisms, for intense interests, for analysing instead of flowing along in a
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