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Lindsey Elms

Finding the Compass in the Chaos

For four decades, I lived within a structure built on effort, endurance and quiet performance. I relied on invisible "scaffolding" - relentless masking, pushing through sensory fatigue and meeting every external expectation - without ever realising the huge toll it was taking on me. 

Eventually the weight became too heavy to carry and the scaffolding collapsed.

I found myself in a state of total discombobulation, adrift on an ocean I didn’t have the map for.

It was in this space of profound instability that I found the truth: I am autistic.