Marriage as I had highlighted in my previous blog was riddled with challenges and living in a very conservative society, going from an orthodox Brahmin family into another, not so orthodox but very worldly inclined family, was a huge shift. Growing up with no siblings at home, no uncles, aunts or cousins of any kind to learn from, it was difficult to decipher relationship norms. Talk about an alien in a foreign land. I have been married for almost 35 years. We have been

Let me introduce myself. I am a woman in my fifties who has spent most of my life feeling different from the rest of the world, like I didn’t belong on this earth. I often told my children that I am an alien from a different planet jokingly although that’s how I really felt inside. Growing up in the 60s, there was no talk about autism or Asperger’s for girls like me. All I knew was I had to go to school and try to blend in and study well. Imitating others was my way of surviv