Thank you for writing this. There are many personality traits - some I posses - that could be called autistic. Things that used to be known as being introverted or socially awkward. Some of these traits I simply grew out of.

I have little doubt that were I born a decade later I would have been diagnosed as autistic. They wanted to diagnose my nephew with autism when he was 4. Now at 7 he's a perfectly happy, outgoing kid with lots of friends and completely "normal".