This week marks our final week in the Autism Awareness Series (Who Are We Missing), and we’re talking about the lost generation. This includes so many of us. I find the context of how we got here really helpful as it helps explain why and how so many of us where missed.
In the first module of The Lost Generation, we talk about what it meant to grow up before the autism lens expanded. Before the internet made community possible. Before we had language for masking or sensory burnout. For so many of us, the signs were there — but the cultural and systemic understanding wasn’t.
When we discover this in adulthood there can be a quiet grief that surfaces in this. But also... relief. Recognition. And, for some, a desire to rework the story from here.
Let’s keep making space for the late bloomers, the lost girls, the misfits who were never really missing — just misunderstood.
This is module one from the The Lost Generation course, if you’re interested in the full course, you can learn more about it below.
Conversation Entry Points
What were the stories told about you growing up — and how do you see them differently now?
What does it mean to reclaim an identity you were never given language for?
If you could go back in time and understand your autism earlier (in a society equipped to support that understanding), at what age would you have wanted to know?
