This site exists because a late diagnosis doesn’t close a chapter—it transforms the way everything else is seen and understood. This Explains a Lot is a space for reflective writing about being diagnosed with autism and ADHD in adulthood—and about what comes after the initial stages of relief and anger have passed. It’s concerned less…
For a long time, I thought a diagnosis would feel like an answer. Like closure. Like the end of a question, I had been carrying quietly for years. Instead, it felt more like opening a door to a long hallway I didn’t know I had agreed to walk down. Behind it were memories I had…