Everyone will see why I am doing this. Some will shed tears for the permanent damage of what ignoring autism has done to my life (I’ll be 42 in October). Autistic people will see a way to get their voices heard with a decent chance of success.

All I ask is that if anyone is convinced by my story, share it wherever more autistic people can read it. It is easy to give up or feel that a happy and fulfilling life is just out of reach… I know. I’m an autistic suicide survivor.

No problem is solvable if we give up. A river can cut through rock not because of its power…

… but because of its persistence.