Mette Harrison
7 min readMay 14, 2022

Everything Good In My Life Comes From Autism

One of the autistic things I love most about myself is my lists. I love lists, especially lists of ten. So I’m going to tell you the ten best things in my life that I wouldn’t have if it weren’t for autism. I’ve listed each of them first with the “deficit” language of comparing autists to neurotypical people and the second word is another way of looking at the same trait in a more positive light.

Mette Harrison

Autist, Ironman Worlds triathlete, Writer, Right-Brained