As a teenage girl with Asperger’s syndrome, I’m tired of trying to be someone I’m not

As a teenage girl with Asperger's syndrome, I’m tired of trying to be someone I’m not Image 1

I’ve realized that my problem was never with my diagnosis — it was with the impossible-to-achieve norms I had set for myself, trying so hard to be normal in a social setting and just ending up even more lost than I was before.

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