“I finally had context. I had, like, an understanding of why certain things were the way they were or why I felt different, or isolated from people. So, just understanding that there wasn’t anything wrong with me was really important. It was just that I was different. And that’s okay.”
Young people with disability talk about the benefits, downsides, and cultural and structural barriers to receiving a diagnosis.
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