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Most people are genuinely surprised to discover I’m autistic. Believe me, I was surprised when I found out.

Now certain people in the autistic community have known before I knew, but I laughed it off because I thought they were being presumptuous.

But I’ve never behaved normally, and I’ve always done things considered “weird”.

For example, I am known to spontaneously break out into laughter. People stare it me wondering what’s gotten into me, but usually it’s because I thought about something so hilarious, and had to break out into audible giggles.

When I was a teenager, I would sit on overpasses for all day and watch traffic just passing by—with a laser focus.

My wife has always complained that when she talks to me, I drift off and seem to enter another world.

The moment I realized I was indeed autistic was when teachers called me into school to tell me they thought my daughter was autistic. I was confused because she seemed just like me.

It then that I realized in order to help my daughter, I had to re-assess myself.

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