@sutter@snouts.online Doesn't -Matter- how you're different, the thing that's Hurting is the idea that you can think and act like a 'Normal' person.
I abandoned all that and decided to get good at thinking like an Autistic person, and my anxiety and depression Halved in strength.
Accepting that my own idea of my Identity was shaped by the external social expectation of a neurotypical mind.
Once there, the idea that it could be Different killed the rest of it.