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 My mental health eventually declined so much from stress that I started feeling like I was on autopilot all the time. I daydreamed frequently, zoned out during lectures, and lost track of time. I couldn't concentrate and started forgetting things. For example, I'd often enter a room and forget why I was there and what I was doing.
 
-I think I only realized how negatively public school had affected me after I dropped out of university for unrelated reasons. In hindsight, I never should've been in the regular public school system. There are other reasons besides autism that I wasn't a good fit for public school, but autism was a major factor. Unfortunately nobody knew I was autistic, so I was put through the system anyways like a square peg in a round hole.
+I think I only realized how negatively public school had affected me after I dropped out of university for unrelated reasons. In hindsight, I never should've been in the regular public school system. There are other reasons besides autism that I wasn't a good fit for public school, but autism was a major factor. Unfortunately nobody knew I was autistic, so I was put through the system anyway like a square peg in a round hole.
 
 ## The Importance of Diagnosis
 It's very common for people like myself with low-to-moderate support needs autism not to get diagnosed until very late in life when the damage has already been done. I've struggled to keep a job and support myself. I've stumbled my way through every relationship and social interaction. Education took a huge toll on my mental health as I sleepwalked through it. I had no idea why life was so hard for me. Other people just blamed me for it, saying I "wasn't trying hard enough", whatever that means.
 
 **Getting an autism diagnosis mostly hasn't changed the way people treat me**. Even after diagnosis, the people who were jerks to me before are still jerks. The people who downplayed my symptoms and denied my condition before still do. And the people who were nice to me before are still nice.
 
-The crucial difference is that **getting diagnosed has completely changed how I think about myself**. My past now makes sense because I have the correct context with which to interpret it. Even though it's hard for me to keep a job or maintain relationships, at least now I know why and I don't have to blame myself any more. I don't have to feel guilty for not meeting others' expectations of me because those expectations were never reasonable to begin with. I now have a way to advocate for myself. My condition is legally recognized and I'm afforded certain protections under the law.
+The crucial difference is that **getting diagnosed has completely changed how I think about myself**. My past now makes sense because I have the correct context with which to interpret it. Even though it's hard for me to keep a job or maintain relationships, at least now I know why and I don't have to blame myself anymore. I don't have to feel guilty for not meeting others' expectations of me because those expectations were never reasonable to begin with. I now have a way to advocate for myself. My condition is legally recognized and I'm afforded certain protections under the law.
 
 ## The Importance of Early Diagnosis
 I got diagnosed this year at 24 years old. I'm just now teaching myself basic emotional intelligence skills, skills I desperately needed but was never taught because I wasn't diagnosed early. I consider myself lucky to have been diagnosed at all, but I can't help imagining what life would've been like for me if I'd been diagnosed earlier and gotten early intervention. A lot of pain, struggling, and confusion could've probably been entirely avoided.