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Awhile back, someone on a random Reddit post suggested I might be neurodivergent. I’d only heard the term used for people with autism – yes, I live under a rock – so my initial response was disgruntlement. My husband, after all, is autistic, and I had a mental image of the time he met my prudish religious neighbor for the first time and made a joke about his dick; if we were both that awkward outwardly instead of just on the inside, we’d be a right mess. There was also a sidenote of, “shit, I’m even more fucked up than Cold, how dare this person compare him to me? He doesn’t deserve that insult!” indignance.
Come to find out “neurodivergent” applies to several diagnoses and disabilities; it applies to most (any?) condition resulting from deviations in how the brain is wired...including mine. Apparently, I am neurodivergent. So is Cold. So many things make sense now. That Redditor was right and I had no idea.
That said...I’ve been editing a chapter of my novel with Boney M.’s “Rasputin” playing on repeat for...uh...an hour? ...or three? Because it’s stuck in my head? Okay, so maybe there were signs. Maybe.
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Apparently, it’s all ASD now: Autism Spectrum Disorder. Youngerspawn’s official diagnosis was PDD:NOS, or Pervasive Developmental Delay: Not Otherwise Specified. It’s now listed as Autistic Disorder on his case files, otherwise known as “Can you make a fucking diagnosis and stick with it. please?”
I prefer the diagnosis a friend of mine got from her pediatrician when her child was diagnosed, right about the same time as Youngerspawn… “This child ain’t right, but she’ll make a great engineer.”
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Good grief. They change the Autism spectrum diagnosis names even more than they change the name for my diagnosed MI. 🙄 I hope you don’t mind if I don’t share it, because the reason isn’t personal. What it is would probably be obvious to anyone who has experience with it and examines my online habits, but I have to be extra careful to not share information that could confirm to my family, “whoa, Ghost is ____!” The amount of information I share is dangerous enough, but to add something like that diagnosis to the mix could get me doxxed...and if my family found out I’m bi? It would be catastrophic.
Either way, it’s probably a good thing I usually just say “Cold has autism” rather than being specific about it; the last thing I need is some smartass going, “well, ack-shoo-lee, it’s called blah-blah-blah.” Your friend’s kid’s diagnosis is a hoot; one of my family members was an engineer, and if she’s anything like him, she’ll be in good company. My husband’s diagnosis was more like, “Congrats, you’re an asshole AND autistic, sucks to be you,” and a boot out the door. It’s wonderful that we have so many options for supporting autistic kids and their parents, but if you’re diagnosed as an adult, you’re just SOL.
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Elderspawn was diagnosed at 28. And we do not let BW talk about the way her otherwise beloved city handles early childhood education on the spectrum. Let’s just say that certain higher-ups at the Board of Education got an education in how mama dragons roll.