>If you're on the spectrum and can do decently well at the curriculum but struggle socially/with general anxiety/etc, then you're often on your own.

Or worse yet, go undetected.

I was out of college before I realized I had been pushing upstream for my entire school career. My partner had gotten identified and gotten help, it wasn't easy but much easier.

I had always tested very highly on standardized tests but was a horrible student. My mom would tie me to chairs, my teachers would verbally abuse me, all of it. Not to mention the social issues I had.

It's a relief to know now, but it leaves me wondering how differently my life would've turned out had someone thought to test and accommodate. Even now I am just kind of not really sure what to do with the knowledge, beyond not guilt-tripping myself for being more "normal".