Autism Is Confusing Because...

These are some thoughts about why autism is confusing, at least why it's confusing to me. I live and breathe autism day in and day out and I recently had to comb through it with a level of detail that I had never had to do before. And the more I read, the more I realized that autism isn't straightforward at all.

I mean, yes I really do believe I have a firm grasp on autism as it is written in the DSM or the autism people talk about when they speak about lived experience but that is just my understanding of autism and I can't say for sure that we both have the same perception of it. And in the therapy room, I can't definitively tell someone what they just experienced was autism or some combo of factors or something else entirely.

And it isn't really necessary to have that level of specificity, at least, not in therapy. And I have my doubts that that level of specificity is truly possible at all. And maybe not having 100% certainty when it comes to autism is okay