On the pathway to The Pathway
Reader - we need to talk, you and I. We need to have a heart-to-heart, find out what we have in common, see if we can't cheer each other along the road a little. I'm 63 and waiting for assessment for ADHD, which I am confident will show up with me at the appointment. As would Autism, if they only had the resources to check for that too. Still - it's a start. Although I'm a not-yet-card-carrying Neurodivergent, I have of course done extensive research and hours of overthinking about how on earth I missed realising for so long. After all, I was a Special School teacher with a noticeable affinity for the Autistic pupils. I regularly had screaming fits triggered by sounds nobody else could hear, when I was tiny. When I was 3 after someone said, "What a cloudburst!" I sobbed in terror for half an hour as I waited for the bits of cloud to hit. I have tickertape synaesthesia (didn't even realise that until a decade ago) and prosopagnosia (face blindness) w...