Autism, Not Aspergers
The Nazi History of the Problematic Diagnosis
8 min readJun 16, 2022
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I was diagnosed autistic around the middle of 2020. This followed years of confusion and pain regarding my inability to reconcile with the neurotypical expectations placed upon me in my personal and professional life. Until this diagnosis, I struggled to understand the nature of my own thought processes and why I seemed to interpret the world so…