NEURODIVERGENT NARRATIVES - CHAPTER 5: FAMILY SECRETS

Some Secrets Can’t Stay Quiet

You already know how a single truth can reshape a life. You felt it the moment you realised you were autistic, that quiet inward click when the story you had been handed no longer matched the person you had always been. Families have their own versions of that moment, the kind that shift the ground beneath everyone at once. A confession. A revelation. A truth that was there all along but spoken out loud only now.

This chapter sits with that shiver of recognition. The writers here know what it is to carry a truth that unsettles the room, to speak it anyway, to watch the family map redraw itself in real time. These are not stories of spectacle. They are stories of what happens when a hidden fact touches the air and nothing can return to the shape it held before.