Westend61 via Getty Images Internally, many undiagnosed adults with autism say they feel different from those around them. There is also a huge focus on the external signs and not so much the internal symptoms of autism, Gardner-Wright said. “There are so many ways that autism can show up and present,” Neff added. “I think there’s more diversity within autism than there is between autism and allistic.” (Allistic people are folks who aren’t on the autism spectrum.) “There might be relationships that have that kind of suddenly burst apart but the autistic person doesn’t understand why,” she said.

Source: Huffington Post May 29, 2023 10:16 UTC