Kim Duff's "What is Autism?"

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Here is something quite old, but still interesting: Kim Duff's "What is Autism?" -
"To me, autism is home. It is a place where I belong. I always have. It is protection against the overwhelming sensory information coming at me from all over, and the too high and too demanding expectations from my parents and family to be "normal". It was, and always has been a buffer between me and their utter incomprehensibility. To be fully conscious of what I was doing, and of my existence has always been painful, and was very much overloading. I simply could not stand it. One phrase an ANI friend of mine used to describe one of us trying to function the way NT's do is like a tazmanian devil in a glass factory, where we're the glass. He also has used the example of a dragon in a bomb factory. (we would be the bombs)..."
The full article is here: What is Autism?

I recognize a lot of what is being told in the article.