A0: Hi! I'm Alyssa, I'm Autistic, and my generation is the first one where any of the autistic people in my family have *paperwork* but it's not the first generation of my family to *have autistic people in it.*
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My dad thought no, I'm not autistic and he neither. 🙃
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No paperwork for this Gen X until fairly recently.
When I was a child, they called it "childhood schizophrenia". Nobody brought their kids to therapy unless they started fires or ate glass.
My dad was like me. Obsessed with cars. No eye contact. He drank heavy just to talk.