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It's so fun, amirite? When you are "gifted" as a kid because your grades are really good* so nobody thinks you are autistic because you're not a "retard" and being autistic means being unintelligent.

Sure, you are socially inept, awkward, have stims, tics, strange meltdowns for no apparent reason, are a picky eater... But that must be just that you're a bit weird, you surely can't be autistic because you have good grades!

*: nobody would ever wonder why did I have so good grades in almost anything but in artistic disciplines that required the use of an artistic side that my brain simply didn't have developed. Literallity and aphantasia explained it later in life and also explained together with the rest of my "weirdness" the autism.

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