>>33215167
>im a late bloomer
>i struggle with eye contact
>a lot of rocking, spinning, fidgeting, and weird movement patterns when i was really young. I think some of it got brushed off because i often spun like a ballerina and that was not abnormal i supposed
>but i used to play house with my friends a lot as a kid so i feel like that suggests im not autistic
>i lagged behind most my peers, i was in special ed due to difficulty comprehending fiction and my teachers used to think i had ADD
>boys used to tease me as autistic since i was atleast 13
>i struggle to understand what im being flirted with being hit on or being leered at
>my mom thought that when i was a kid i would grow up into someone who would never go to college
>im a math+cs major at a quite good university
>people still insist im autistic, incluing my primary doctor, my therapists, and my mother
i dont feel like im autistic though. I feel like i was just raised by autistic people. Women are not supposed to have autism and if i did have autism i dont want that to prevent me from being who i want to be. i want to get a good job have a husband and be a mother.