NEURODIVERGENT NARRATIVES - CHAPTER 14: MISCELLANEOUS GEMS

What Doesn't Fit But Still Belongs

Some pieces do not sit neatly inside a theme. They insist on their own shape, their own weather, the way a stray thought can arrive and refuse to leave until you have named it. These are the fragments we carry long after the noise of the world has faded. Small truths. Sharp edges. Quiet reckonings that slip between categories because real Autistic life has never followed a tidy outline.

The writers in this final chapter offer moments of reckoning and recognition that stand apart from the rest of the book. They show the cost of belonging, the ache of dual identity, the deep pulse of special interests, the steady companionship of therapy, and the strange beauty of living between worlds. These are not afterthoughts. They are the untamed parts of our stories, the ones we discover only when everything else has been said.