Thank you for your writing. We need advocates like you. I was only diagnosed in my early 30's, untill then I wasted so much of my life and energy on just trying to be normal and fit in. When I started reading books on Asperger's, it was like reading my own autobiography. I always felt a painful dissonance between me and the rest of the world, but since the diagnosis I felt somewhat liberated from all that.

The only thing that still baffles me is why is (suddenly) so many of us out there. Is it the toxins? Electronics? Or perhaps people were always like that, but nobody bothered to give a shit. I really don't know.