We Exist: Girls and women living with autism

By the time we're adults, we've come to grips with our personalities. But what if you're entire life you've always felt different and could never figure out why?

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• We
• Exist:
• Girls
• and
• women
• living
• with
• autism

[xAllie88x]

i am glad it is being brought to light that people with autism can still become successful and appear "normal" my case is the same. i am somewhere between high funtioning autism and aspergers, so PDD-NOS. but i do not feel like anything is that different about me and it is not impossible for me to live a normal life

[MONIQUEIJ]

i wish a lot of people would see this.

[Triciatly]

I love this story but I dont like how the reporter talks over her.

[aspietrait101]

Was Ms. Morrisey able to find and maintain a relationship which ended up in marriage?

Does she still have difficulties or struggle internally communicating with NTs?

[lindseywong919]

awesome, its amazing how shes able to get up and speak everyday. My prof told me a secret for giving presentations with eye contact. Look at the back of the room instead. I cant make eye contact with presentation either, it scares me

[mslewp]

She doesn't have 'Mild Autism'. She has regular Autism, which has been distortrd by the American News Media. Wanna' know who else had Autism? Albert Eistein.

[doodlebuggy15]

@iferlandqueen yes I agree because I see it as a gift and i love having it! :)

[doodlebuggy15]

I am a girl with Asperger's and thankfully I was diagnosed at 2 or 3 and what's hard is that my parents have both of their children that are Autistic. My brother and I he is low-functioning but is doing well and is the top of his class last year now going onto high school with me because I am junior and the reason why he is more and that you seen more "white" boys is that they are weakest and "white" girls are the strongest.

[iferlandqueen]

I was just diagnosed at age 37 with Asperger's. I make quilts, videos, art does help. This helps, to see someone my age, doing sew well with her class. I love Maureen's great attidude, it does show that our brains, they are a gift, the courage is yes, amazing.

[GrudgeWoman]

i am 20 and i have asd and sometimes when i dont talk to people they think im being rude

[Lizbethbike]

I thought you only got and autisitic spectrum disorder diagnosis if it's having a significant and detrimental effect on being able to live your life.

Maybe that was at a time in her life when she had the ADHD diagnosis. She's certainly done ok so it doens't seem too much of a disability in her case.

Well done her anyway. Stand up for autism.

[aspiebear]

I can really relate to the woman as like her, my AS is not clear to see to so many people as I am able to put myself across almost as well as she does and be as vivacious as she seems.