I've actually have a lot of stories to tell that will make this web page too long. So I'll be telling them one by one. My name is Michelle. I'm 23 with autism and here is one of those stories:

Born in 1962, I was an unusually quiet baby. I began to have seizures that shut down my respiratory system at around 10 months old, and was eventually tested and diagnosed with frontal and left temporal lobe brain damage. Troubling behavioural differences which left my family desperate emerged over time and in stages. Some milder peculiarities, such as drawing detailed pictures up-side-down during early childhood, were also present. A diagnosis of “some form of autism” was determined.