Tanya, I think this is great. It is realistic and life affirming in spite of the difficult aspects of your life. I am a psychiatrist with AS. It runs in my family. I struggled with low level symptoms since college and throughout the early decades of my life. In my 30s it hit hard for some reason. Now I am 62 and haven't worked for almost 9 years. It's been a rough road with surgeries etc. I wrote about how I felt about my identity here: https://medium.com/invisible-illness/not-still-me-aeefd2e176e9