I see this question a lot whenever we talk about girls and women receiving an autism diagnosis later in life. “If they’ve made it this far and they seem fine, why does a diagnosis even matter?” Making it through life doesn’t tell us how difficult it has been to do so. So many struggles are invisible. You can go to school, build relationships, have a career, raise a family, accomplish incredible things and still spend years privately struggling with things no one else can see. The fact that someo