{"id":356,"date":"2007-02-23T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T07:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/wordpress\/autisticme\/?p=356"},"modified":"2023-11-26T16:35:09","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T22:35:09","slug":"is-this-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/autisticme\/2007\/02\/23\/is-this-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This Me? The Autistic Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Note: First Blogger post to The Autistic Me, from 2007]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was diagnosed as autistic in 2006, I was 37 years old. I&#8217;m still struggling to make sense of the diagnosis, wondering what it explains and what it does not explain. More importantly, I am wondering if I can believe the diagnosis or if it is like so many others I have heard from doctors and specialists; it is a placeholder waiting to be replaced with the next trendy possibility.<\/p>\n<p>This blog might not receive many updates or it might be a place where I work out my thoughts. Actually, even starting this blog seems too open in some ways, but necessary in others. I want to see if anyone cares what I have to say on the subject while realizing the odds of being located on Blogger are slim and none. The &#8220;signal to noise&#8221; ratio here is much too high to know if I will reach one other person.<\/p>\n<p>For now, I&#8217;m only planning to post my own thoughts. I do not need to link to every organization, reprint every news story, or spread rumors posing as science. What I want to do is explain how I experience the world. I hate when professionals tell me I&#8217;m only experiencing life in a &#8220;different&#8221; way. 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