@article{Twinley_2022, title={Actually Autistic at Forty: A Source of my Auto/Biographical Troubles}, volume={3}, url={https://autobiographyreview.com/index.php/abrev/article/view/3}, DOI={10.56740/abrev.v3i1.3}, abstractNote={<p>In October 2019, two months after my 40<sup>th</sup> birthday, I received a formal diagnosis that I was autistic. I joined all those other thousands of late-diagnosed women in the UK, previously undiagnosed and overlooked. I had spent my years being mislabelled, misunderstood, or misinterpreted. I dealt with feelings I did not understand and sensory experiences I could not bear to process. I felt a need to cope with the ‘normal’ aspects of everyday life. I never knew why I experienced these troubles and troubling feelings for all those years. The discourse surrounding autism is referred to as the cost of camouflaging. In this article, I critically discuss predominant discourses on autism and gender as I reflect on my auto/biographical troubles from my newly confirmed, acquired identity and perspective as an autistic, now 40-something-year-old woman.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Auto/Biography Review }, author={Twinley, Rebecca}, year={2022}, month={Aug.}, pages={62–76} }