When I was 12 years old, I received the diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome, today called Autism Spectrum Disorder, and my life was forever changed in a few significant ways. First, I finally had a name for why I felt so “weird” and socially out of place at time. Second,...
At the age of 18, I found myself dreading the next major step in my life, my freshman year in college. While my feelings may have been similar to some of my peers, I had something unique about my experience that simply wasn’t a factor for most of them. This...