I Struggle Socially and I'm No Longer Ashamed of It

My desires in friendship are different from what is considered standard and that's okay.

Being diagnosed with autism as a 37 year old has been a strange and liberating thing: there are so many things about myself that I’ve kept hidden because I thought they were flaws to be corrected, but once I started learning about Autism, it felt like the world was being presented to me with a clearer and more forgiving lens.

I have a very socially adep…