“I finally, finally got an answer of why I was different.”
“They would ask me questions and I was like, ‘Oh I didn’t find that they were abnormal’ because I did a lot of those things,” Alonzo, 37, recalled toShe didn't give the matter too much thought until she started graduate school to become a therapist. A professor encouraged students to see a therapist as they studied. Suddenly, something clicked.
Amanda Alonzo and her son both have autism. She said she encourages him to be "authentically" himself, and she knows she needs to embrace that mindset as well to be a good role model for him.Alonzo received a formal autism diagnosis at about age 27.
Alonzo said she's come to understand that autism spectrum disorder can present itself slightly differently in females. She's also learned another reason the developmental condition might have been missed in her case: “I come from an immigrant family, first generation on my dad’s side, so a lot of my behaviors got written off.”
“I would scream at God, asking him, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” she told TODAY. “My whole life I felt like I was different. I always used to say my brain didn’t work right.”In January 2020 at the age of 24, Hops learned why.
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