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by amarcheschi 538 days ago
I read the strangest man a few years ago, a therapist I went to talk to suggested me to read it because - despite not bejng possible to diagnose dead people - he definitely had some traits that overlapped with autism. Definitely an interesting read
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I read it years ago and it definitely helped me get comfortable in my own skin. There's more acceptance (or at least it's given more lip service) towards "neirodivergent" people now, but for a long time it felt like I had something wrong with me because I didn't understand normies.

There are also some good documentaries and books about the people working at Bletchley Park. A lot of them seemed to have been wired similarly.

In the old days they called it, "habitually one-pointed".

Those guys really know how to concentrate.