Queer and Autistic: How it Feels

Think coming out as LGBTQ is hard?

Royalty-free autism clip art

I was six years old when the nun walked me across a sunny courtyard to meet a “nice lady.” The nun terrified me even though she was my first-grade teacher and even though she was always perfectly kind.

School terrified me. It was new and different and NOT my bedroom where I could curl up in a ball in the closet and stick my…