"On the spectrum," here. My mother knew, when I was kid, but never told me. I had to find out, the hard way, in my 40s.

Made me a damn good coder, though.

No one ever told me I was "different." They just kept ghosting me, and shunning me, all my life.

If I had known then, what I know now, I wouldn't have taken it so personally, and wouldn't have spent thousands of dollars, trying to fix something that can't be fixed.