diagnosis, and being unique like this was, for me, akin to being Harry Potter in the ordinary Muggle world: full of differences and an inability to fit in. With a nonconformist attitude and growing self-confidence, I was indeed just like Harry, down to the July 31 birthday. My parents had known I was autistic years before I found out; it was on a lazy summer day that they became the owls delivering the equivalent of a Hogwarts acceptance letter and a celebration of being magical.
My story about Harry Potter caught the attention of an autism book publisher in the audience. Before I knew it, I was about to start my freshman year as a soon-to-be-published author and illustrator talking about the confusing and awkward middle school years. — after all, they had provided help to my family when I was first diagnosed with autism, and my family had considered them a gift to us.A few days before the art show, I handed my English teacher a flyer about the event. He studied it, and called me to the front of the room to tell everyone about the show.
The pen-name daydreams about the book stopped, too. Less than a year after telling my classmates I'm autistic, the book was released under my real name. I appeared on CNN Newsroom less than a month later, during spring break. I continued speaking about autism publicly and kept writing.
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