Again I am probably the last one to find out!
Susan Boyle has ASD
The story is so sad, but at least now she has million$. Her story is similar to the stories of those who lived decades without help or even tolerance, before the kindly docs put ASD in their DSM. (That sounds like a straight line, doesn't it?)
I thought I spend a lot of time here on WP but I missed that.
You know what is in that article that I found interesting - she didn't find out until both parents were gone. That's true of me too. Mom was a force in my life. Our health is excellent and that's that. When Mom passed, I felt - oh you're going to think this is ridiculous - a ping, a snip, as if some thread was cut, some thread connecting me and Mom. I knew she was gone.
My sister felt it too, in another city.
It was only then that I found WP, got a Dx, etc. I was free from pretending to be normal.
Anybody else with that sort of thing?