Hello it’s me. So I got diagnosed with autism as a kid, around 15 years old, but my parents didn’t seem to like the diagnosis so I never got any treatment or anything. So I go about my adult life with the background assumption I have autism.
Flash forward to today, my employer changes healthcare plans and suddenly I have psychiatric care coverage for the first time ever as an adult. I’ve been dealing with some stuff so I book a few appointments with the assumption I have autism. We’ll long story short, over a few sessions the doctors have me screened and determine it’s very unlikely I’m autistic in a medical sesne, which was kinda shocking to me.
But they tell me stuff like autism diagnoses have become better since I was a kid, so that calms me down. They tell me it’s far more likely I exhibit what’s called schizoid personality disorder (SPD) , which often seems like autism on the surface. I guess it explains a lot.
Anyone have experience with this?
The comic has been active since 1991 when it started in a student newspaper. No one knows anything about the author since he’s very private. It’s likely his name is a pseudonym. It’s been online ever since around 2000.
But I’d guess he’s somewhere in his early 50s. If he’s even the same guy who started the comic. It’s gone through weird phases and changes in things like the perspective and art style. I remember in the mid 00s where it was more of a radical feminist comic if you can believe that.