Melissa Elaine, a music industry professional in California, shares the lead-up to getting an autism diagnosis just this past January and what life has been like ever since.

Melissa shares how past therapists chalked up her challenges to trauma and C-PTSD, dismissing her and her family's well-informed suspicions that she may be autistic. She also shares her experiences of going nonverbal, her main autistic attributes as a child, and what aspects of life have changed since her late-autism assessment and identification.

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If you'd like to know more about topics discussed in this episode, check out:

"Females and Autism/Aspergers: A Checklist" by Samantha Craft

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price

So You Think You're Autistic: A Workbook for the Confused Person Who's Trying to Figure Things Out by Samantha Stein

Episode outro music: "Hidden Lines" by Ooyy

Theme music: "Everything Feels New" by Evgeny Bardyuzha.

All episodes written and produced by Kristen Hovet.

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