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