Autistic Lived Experience: Re-Thinking the Reasons for Past Behaviors

• By: Sam Farmer Neurodiversity Advocate, Writer, Author, and Public Speaker
• July 9th, 2026
• autism research, autistic lived experience, internalized ableism, late autism identification, neurodiversity, rejection sensitivity, self-acceptance, sensory sensitivity, Summer 2026 Issue
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A late autism identification has a tendency to change one's perspective on things. My own identification at age 40 is certainly a case in point. Many questions for which there were never satisfactory explanations, answered. A half-baked self-identity made whole. In essence, a newly discovered lens...