Are you autistic? I am.

[Oeditpus Rex]

38. I gather most of us are, to some extent

I mean, it't's the autism spectrum. i think of it like the color spectrum, or the identified 16 shades of gray between pure white and pure black.

I've always considered things differently than most people (a description of that requires far too much to go into here). I don't think the word had even been coined in my early youth, and my mom just thought, and often angrily told ne, there was "something wrong" with me, despite the fact that I got nearly straight A's all through elementary school.

I've never been tested for autism, but it wouldn't surprise me a bit if I were somewhere on the spectrum. In fact I think I'd be rather proud of it because it would mean "I think and feel in ways that you can't." (I'd just leave out the part about those ways often being quite frustrating.)