I CAME A little late to neurodiversity. It was a 2021 episode of ABC’s All in the Mind, which promised to uncover the hidden histories of late-diagnosed autistic adults, that first piqued my interest. 

The host described the changing conception of autism in the twenty-first century from a condition that affected a small minority of non-verbal boys to a more kaleidoscopic neurological experience that those raised female tended to be better at masking.