The idea
Do you find reflecting, either via journaling or in other ways, helps you process and understand yourself, others, and the world better?
Here are a few questions to reflect on how your autism, and not knowing you were autistic, may have influenced your interactions with others, or them with you.
The prompts
- How did being autistic effect how you got along with people in your grade school years?
- How did not knowing that you were autistic effect how you got along with people in your grade school years?
- How did being autistic effect how you got along with people in your middle school or high school years?
- How did not knowing that you were autistic effect how you got along with people in your middle school or high school years?
- How did being autistic effect your relationships with your parents, siblings, or other family members?
- How did not knowing that you were autistic effect your relationships with your parents, siblings, or other family members?
- How did being autistic effect your relationships with friends, teachers, employers, co-workers, strangers, or other people?
- How did not knowing that you were autistic effect your relationships with friends, teachers, employers, co-workers, strangers, or other people?
- How did being autistic effect your intimate relationships?
- How did not knowing that you were autistic effect your intimate relationships?
I hope these spark some interesting thoughts.
Feel free to share any reflections in the comments, with others you trust, or to keep them to yourself.