What’s so familiar about the phrase “You don’t look autistic”

And why it doesn’t bother me (much)

Aneisha
ZORA
Published in
2 min readDec 13, 2022

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When I first dove into the online autistic community, one phrase kept popping up as other people’s typical response to being diagnosed as autistic later in life: “ You don’t seem autistic.”

Well, I didn’t get this response very often.

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Aneisha
ZORA
Writer for

Late-diagnosed autistic/ADHD. Exploring the “I’m autistic. The past kind of sucked. Now what?” part in writing.