
London – In a candid personal essay published by The Guardian, a writer reflects on the decades-long journey of grappling with identity and mental health, revealing how a misdiagnosis of being gay masked a deeper, undetected issue: autism. Misunderstood for Decades: The Struggle Behind the Mask For years, the author believed that being gay was the root cause of their lifelong feelings of alienation and struggle. “I thought it was being gay that made my life...