I've been on this subreddit, studied the topic and had many autistic people in my life, my biggest wish is that one of them or you would've had my mom for a parent.

She is autistic single mom, had me and my (neurotypical) twin through IVF and worked from home, she really devoted her whole life to us since having kids was her biggest dream (she even worked with disabled kids), but I just wish so badly I was born on the spectrum too so her parenting would've worked like she thought it would.

In a lot of ways I think she thought about her own childhood and tried her very best to do things in a way she would've liked as a child, compensating for her own trauma, like not forcing physical touch or social situations onto us.…