aut(hored)ism
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I am a graduate student.

I do not eat my own feces.

I can tie my shoes.

I teach college composition.

I do not bang metal spoons over my head while singing "Auld Lang Syne."

As many things as I am, I am not; as many things as autism is, I am not; as many things as normal is, I am not.

And yet, I am literally and metaphorically autistic, written into the folds of neurodiverse existence.

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