Do you ever feel like you just don’t fit into this world? For some reason Medium did not allow me to highlight this great question, so I just copied it here. I feel like a misfit quite often. I think my family is a misfit too although we keep trying to fit ourselves into this world as much as we think we should, but no more than that.
This is such a deep and meaningful piece. It doesn't matter how many "clinical" labels we can attach to each one of us, or none, all of us are on the spectrum, figuratively speaking. Of course some people are more in odds with the world than others, but each one of us lives in on our own world, and there is no way to align our individual worlds with each other. Even the most compatible of us have some misalignment. We often misspeak, misunderstand, under- or over-communicate, etc. We keep trying to connect all dots, but failing, more often than not. We manage to connect only some of them, in the best case. Of course the world sometimes doesn't make sense. To you, and to me, and to some other people like us.. Hope I could see the paper is white when you see it as white :-)