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People started to assume I was putting things on for attention

Finding out I was autistic was like returning to my home planet

I spent my whole life working overtime to try to act like everybody else

Sara Gibbs 6 (c) Juliet McKee Photography

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Author Sara Gibbs wondered if she’d ever have a place in the world until a life-changing discovery. 

What it’s like to get an autism diagnosis after years of being called difficult, dramatic and lazy