We're Not Broken

disease on par with cancer. Rob Halford of the band Judas Priest was an openly gay man who adopted the regalia of studs and leather from gay bars in London that became the heavy metal “look” that so many macho metal dudes would copy.

The world around them is a bigger impediment to them than their autism ever was.

All of these changes to the DSM led to a surge in autism diagnoses, which makes sense; if the definition of autism is broadened, it stands to reason that more people who went undetected in the past would get diagnosed.