Emma wants to find friends to talk about "really weird stuff" like her love of time travel fiction
The day Emma Shores was diagnosed with autism has become such a defining moment in her adult life that she celebrates it like a "second birthday".
The first thing on her mind when she got the news was making friends with other people living with autism, people she felt might truly understand her for the first time in her life.
"I thought maybe I'll feel less like an alien," she said. But things were not that easy.
Emma had been in her mid-20s, living in London, and following her dream of becoming a primary school teacher when she had what she describes as a "major meltdown".
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