'I went from being the girl with secret magic to being unafraid to be my full self.'
diagnosis, and being unique like this was, for me, akin to being Harry Potter in the ordinary Muggle world: full of differences and an inability to fit in. With a nonconformist attitude and growing self-confidence, I was indeed just like Harry, down to the July 31 birthday. My parents had known I was autistic years before I found out; it was on a lazy summer day that they became the owls delivering the equivalent of a Hogwarts acceptance letter and a celebration of being magical.
My story about Harry Potter caught the attention of an autism book publisher in the audience. Before I knew it, I was about to start my freshman year as a soon-to-be-published author and illustrator talking about the confusing and awkward middle school years. — after all, they had provided help to my family when I was first diagnosed with autism, and my family had considered them a gift to us.A few days before the art show, I handed my English teacher a flyer about the event. He studied it, and called me to the front of the room to tell everyone about the show.
The pen-name daydreams about the book stopped, too. Less than a year after telling my classmates I'm autistic, the book was released under my real name. I appeared on CNN Newsroom less than a month later, during spring break. I continued speaking about autism publicly and kept writing.
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